My Substack is now live and the first post is up.

https://chrisstorb.substack.com/p/abraham-whiteall-now-of-the-city

My goal with the new blog/website is to continue to present information about historic furniture and woodwork that is difficult to find elsewhere. I think of the expansive shelves of books we have/had to educate ourselves about historic furniture, from Wallace Nutting’s “Furniture Treasury” through Israel Sack, Inc’s 10 volume set of “American Antiques” and hundreds of articles published throughout the twentieth century about historic furniture where you cannot find one image of the back of a chest, the construction of a drawer, or an un-upholstered easy chair. Things have improved in the twenty-first century. We now have over 30 volumes of the Chipstone Foundation’s “American Furniture” and Pat Kane and her colleagues Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery which continues to be updated. (Many objects in the RIFA have multiple photographs including construction details and all entries have full descriptions with information on wood species and construction characteristics, really a one of a kind effort.) 

If you subscribe to my Substack you will receive an email alerting you to new posts. The first 3-5 posts will be free to all, after that you will be asked to pay a monthly or yearly fee to see the posts that follow. I will work towards putting up new content of various lengths weekly. The next post will be the second part of the story of the high chest at Stenton that Abraham Whiteall inscribed in several locations in ink and graphite. Following that I plan a post about an object that has made its way back to Philadelphia after many decades, possibly even centuries.

Thanks to all who have followed along here. I look forward to the discussions we will have in the future.