Comments on: The Neat & Plain Style: A Visit to MESDA http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Fri, 24 May 2013 02:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawntdTs6dhpRWoYq4MbVeHxJPdrEyA9W-UQhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16117 www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawntdTs6dhpRWoYq4MbVeHxJPdrEyA9W-UQ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:28:34 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16117 The ribbon post is mine

Harrelson Stanley

]]> By: www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawntdTs6dhpRWoYq4MbVeHxJPdrEyA9W-UQhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16116 www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawntdTs6dhpRWoYq4MbVeHxJPdrEyA9W-UQ Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:26:12 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16116 I first visited MESDA in the summer of 1983. What a great place. Do the unmarried young women still wear a pink ribbon around their necks? The real story is how those pieces were collected. It’s the kind of story Agatha Christi could write. Love MESDA

]]> By: Tom Duganhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16115 Tom Dugan Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:59:05 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16115 Greg M:

Yes. See http://mesda.org/onlineExhibits_sprite/piedmont-furniture/mesda_high-chest-of-drawers.html

-T

]]> By: Tom Duganhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16114 Tom Dugan Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:44:09 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16114 This is excellent stuff! Not only Chris’ post but the value-added comments above. It’s been 25+ years since I visited MESDA, and just got to quickly run through before closing time. I’m just getting deeper into Chesapeake styles during the Federal period now that I’m doing the 1812-era joiner/cabinetmaker during 1812 reenactments and I had no idea MESDA reached so far East.

Road trip!

]]> By: Mike Kratkyhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16113 Mike Kratky Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:49:26 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16113 The Cellarette caught my attention, previously had always thought that they were a Yankee version of the Kentucky Sugar Chest and here it is in a southern museum.

]]> By: Matt Hobbshttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16112 Matt Hobbs Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:56:46 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16112 Great post. I love the "neat and plain", but I’d like to make sure folks know that MESDA has incredible high-style, carved and inlaid furniture (and other decorative and fine art) as well. You can see plenty of that on their website.

]]> By: Greg Mhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16111 Greg M Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:42:17 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16111 Is that a sulphur inlay on the chest of drawers?

]]> By: Ryan Mhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16110 Ryan M Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:32:44 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16110 Those archives were my home-away-from-home during grad-school. Good times.
Its an astounding resource.

]]> By: John Cashmanhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16109 John Cashman Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:46:56 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16109 My favorite issue of the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts is from 1986. The entire issue was from John Bivins on the work of the Sommers carver. Great stuff, wonderful stuff.

]]> By: Lynn Smithhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/the-neat-plain-style-a-visit-to-mesda/comment-page-1#comment-16108 Lynn Smith Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:13:51 +0000 http://blog.woodworking-magazine.com/blog/The+Neat+Plain+Style+A+Visit+To+MESDA.aspx#comment-16108 Using the link to MESDA in the above post you can access "Publications" and in turn, "MESDA Journal" to view past print issues of this interesting publication. Not to be missed is the 2001 Summer issue devoted to Frank Horton, the Alan Lomax of Southern Decorative Arts if you will, and a diving force behind MESDA and the Old Salem restoration.

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