Scottish Furniture, 1500-1914

Abstract

• n March 2024, National Museums Scotland will publish Scottish Furniture, 1500-1914, the first comprehensive narrative account of furniture-making in Scotland. The author of this new book, Stephen Jackson, has been Senior Curator, Furniture and Woodwork at NMS for over twenty years. In this lecture he will speak about a range of new discoveries ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, as well as the challenges of writing a broad survey.