Joseph Meeks and Sons

A leading firm of New York furniture makers active from 1797 to 1868. In 1833 they issued an advertisment illustrating forty-one pieces of furniture, most in a heavy but generally simplified version of the English Regency style--pier-tables with columns and lion-paw feet, dining table with central supports, etc.--some of them adapted from the pattern books of G. Smith. In the 1840s they were making pieces in the Gothic Revival style, including a set of walnut chairs for the White House (1846-47). Later they turned to the Neo-Rococo and produced laminated rosewood furniture similar to that...