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Entrepreneurship & Classical Design in Boston’s South End: The Furniture of Isaac Vose & Thomas Seymour, to
Virtually forgotten for years, Isaac Vose and his brilliant furniture are revealed in a new exhibition and accompanying volume. Beginning with a modest pair of collection boxes he made for his localBoston church in , Vose went on to build a substantial business empire and to make furniture for the most prominent Boston families. The exhibition and catalog restore Vose from relative obscurity to his rightful position as one of Boston’s most important craftsmen. Opening at the MHS on May 11, the exhibition will be on view through September
The complementary book, Rather Elegant Than Showy (May ), by Robert Mussey and Clark Pearce, will be available for sale at the MHS.
Image: Couch, Isaac Vose & Son, with Thomas Wightman, carver, Boston, Historic New England, Gift of the Massachusetts Historical Society (); photograph bygd David Bohl.
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The Ewell House was demolished and replaced by these buildings that were designed to look historic.
The Ewell House was demolished and replaced by these buildings that were designed to look historic.
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