"It's a great piece, but what would I do with it?"

Do you hear yourself saying that when you look over an interesting item of estate furniture? Or maybe you say "it's beautiful, but in my house how would it hold up?" Or "it's nice, but does it fit my aesthetic?" If that sounds like you, consider the versatility of American Country Furniture — beautiful, time-proven, and ready for the challenges of modern living.

Two hundred years ago, the United States was very much a land of artisans — workers with a direct one-to-one connections with the items they produced. No assembly lines, no prefabricated parts churned out for routine assembly, just workers, tools, and wood, ready to come together to create home furnishings of substance, utility, and a distinctive honest charm. Form more often than not followed function, with pieces built for strength, durability, and resistance to the daily wear and tear of use.

Each part was cut by hand, formed by hand, and fitted into place by hand with an eye toward its functional role in the home. A chair, its legs and spindles lovingly hand-turned and shaped, its seat carefully carved and formed to provide support and comfort at a table constructed with equal care. A cabinet, designed for strength and substance, built to hold, protect and preserve the precious goods of household life. Containers of every size and shape, created to epitomize that ancient maxim, "a place for everything and everything in its place." Here was furniture for an active world, a world of work and purpose.

**LOT # 7332: DIAMOND POINT CUPBOARD**

Rare 18th c. Painted Pine Stepback Cupboard, with red, blue and green painted surface, iron ring pulls and door latches, having a molded edge top cornice above two paneled doors, interior with two inserted shelves, lower section with two drawers above two paneled doors, open storage interior, set on a molded edge skirted base. Total height 7 1/2 feet.

Consider Lot 7332 in our Auction of the Americana Collection of Jean and Larry Dubord. This 18th Century stepback cupboard was hand crafted from solid pine, with bold diamond-motif carvings on each door and drawer, the whole finished in vintage shades of red and green. The passing of the years, decades, and centuries has by no means compromised the ability of this sturdy piece to fill its daily function as a means of household storage, a place for household work. Modern assembly methods or contemporary mass production could not improve it. And the simple dignity of its design would elevate any living space, from the classic and the traditional to the bold and the experimental.

**LOT # 7035: BOW-BACK WINDSOR CHAIRS**

*Matching set, in glossy brick red paint in varying degrees of wear, having seven simple spindles, bodged seats, faux bamboo splayed legs and H-stretcher, 17" seat.*

Or consider Lot 7035, a grouping of six bow-back Windsor chairs. These finely-crafted, closely matched items of everyday furniture stand as the very essence of American chairdom. Seats shaped and bodged for comfort, backs smoothly curved each with seven simple spindles evenly spaced for a clean yet distinctive profile. And each finished with glossy brick-red paint showing just the right amount of honest wear. Chairs for your kitchen, chairs for your dining room, chairs for any spot or space about your home, wherever a chair might draw visual interest, or furnish a spot of comfort.

**LOT # 7050:** **MAINE PAINTED COUNTRY DRESSING TABLE**

Found in Farmington, Maine. All Original Classic form in mustard paint, with stencil blossom and leaf decoration in red and green on the scrolled backsplash and drawer face, with flint glass knobs, turned legs ending in ball feet. 29" to working surface, 36" tall overall.

Or Lot 7050, a painted dressing table found in Farmington Maine by legendary collectors Larry and Jean Dubord. Made in the 1840s, this table wears a bright coat of mustard-yellow paint trimmed in a hand-stenciled leaf-and-blossom design. Here is a piece right in step with 2025's "Cottagecore" decor trend, with the added value of impeccable authenticity. This table does not stand as an ironic commentary on "country" design, its countriness no manufactured product of corporate promotion. This table is exactly what it appears to be. It is real, it is genuine, it is honest in a way that no contemporary simulacrum owing more to the container ship than to the artisanal workshop could ever be.

Furnishings you can use, furnishings you can love, furnishings you can respect for all they have been and all they can be. American Country Furniture is a style — and a decorating ethos — with something to offer us all. Get acquainted with Americana at its finest at our Auction of The Americana Collection of the Larry and Jean Dubord Estate, taking place on September 19th at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries!

This is your exclusive invitation to join a historic event showcasing extraordinary American art and rare collectibles. Join us in celebrating the Dubords’ legacy and Maine’s heritage.

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