Goddard and Townsend (or Townsend-Goddard) is a rare style of furniture made in Newport, Rhode Island in the 18th century. Newport as seen from the International Space Station. ...
The furniture is named after Townsend and Goddard families, who were cabinentmakers in Newport. The families were related through marriage. John Townsend (1733-1809) and John Goddard (1724-1785) were among the most famous of the artisans and many of their works were signed. The furniture often featured a uniquely American blend of alternating convex and concave blocks and shells.
Twenty-one members of successive generations of these two intermarried families worked as cabinetmakers over a period of 120 years, selling their products not only in New England but also in the coastal trade and in the West Indies. [1]
A single mahogany secretary bookcase made by Christopher Townsend (John's father) in 1740 sold at auction in New York for $8.25 million. John Goddard made a famous six-shell desk-bookcase for Providence merchant Nicholas Brown. It was sold by the Brown family in 1989, for-- $12.1 million -- a record for a piece of American furniture at auction. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Art, and Preservation Society of Newport County own works of Goddard-Townsend. The name mahogany was first used for wood of Swietenia mahagoni, later also for the wood of the closely related Swietenia macrophylla. ... Nicholas Brown or Nick Brown may refer to: Nick Brown (Musician) (born 1978), American Producer and DJ of electronic music, born Nicholas Brown Meehan Nicholas Brown (Brown University) (1769–1841), signer of the 18th-century charter of what became Brown University. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... The largest of the Preservation Societys mansions, The Breakers. ...
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