Kingston’s vision: South Australia’s earliest and most enigmatic piece of colonial furniture, Justin Gare, Peter Scammell and Andrew Klenke
Abstract:
Three South Australian researchers explore the possible genesis and history of a massive red gum bookcase which came up at an Adelaide auction in 2017. Using a variety of evidence, sources and methods, they identify the bookcase as a very early piece of South Australian furniture and mount a case for who commissioned it, who designed it and who made it, when and why.
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