Matsayin Farko na Amirka na Gabatarwa
Hitchcock kujera ne ainihin asali na asali. An tsara shi ne ta mutum guda, wanda aka yi niyya don samar da taro, kuma ya zo ya tsaya ga dukan jinsin kujera.
Gidan maza ga mutane
Wannan salon kujerar tana dauke da sunansa daga mahaliccinsa, Lambert Hitchcock (1795-1852). Wannan ma'aikacin gidan na Connecticut ya zauna a Barkhamsted, wani ƙananan gari a arewa maso yammacin jihar, a 1818. A can ya fara yin sassan kujera don sufuri da taro.
A shekara ta 1820 zuwa shekara ta 1820, ya fara aiki da babbar tsari: masana'antu na dukkanin kujeru. Ba kayan hannu ba, amma an halicce shi a kan layi, ta amfani da alamu da aka tsara ta al'ada, a cikin al'adar aikin juyin juya halin masana'antu. Dark fentin (maimakon yin amfani da bishiyoyi masu launi mai duhu) da kuma ƙwanƙwasawa (a maimakon sassaƙaƙƙiya ko inlaid), sun kasance shaidun zane ga talakawa.
Ƙananan kujera masu haske sun kasance masu tasowa, suna sayarwa da kuma kwance a cikin tekun Gabas da kuma cikin cikin ƙananan matasan Amurka. A shekara ta 1825, Hitchcock ya koma ma'aikata mafi girma, wanda ke aiki da mutane 100. A cikin hutunsa, a cikin shekarun 1820 da 1830, kamfanin ya samar da gaisuwa 300 a mako, wanda ya kai kusan 15,000 a shekara. Garin ya canza sunansa zuwa Hitchcocksville don girmamawa.
Yanayin Yanki
Kamfanin Hitchcock - wanda aka sake tsarawa a 1832 a matsayin Hitchcock, Alford & Co. - a zahiri samar da kujeru a yawancin iri da launuka, tare da kwamitocin .
Amma babban abincin Hitchcock yana da wani sashi mai suna Sheraton tare da nauyin halayen tauraron dan adam, kafafu na kafa, da kuma matakan Neoclassical da aka sabunta tare da gwamnatin Amurka ta shafe, kamar shinge mai shinge da ƙofar baya (ba sabanin zamani ba, sautin klismos mai farfadowa).
Yawancin wurare an yi fentin baki ko baki mai launin fata (koyi da ebony) ko duhu mai duhu.
Daga nan sai an tsara kayan ado a kan baya da bangarori a cikin launuka masu launin haske (zinare, blues, reds, whites), kuma an yi amfani da gashin fatar jiki a kan dukkanin. Samfurin samfurin yana da sabo, mai haske - mai haske da farin ciki - wanda ya yi kira ga masu amfani da rana.
Sauran halaye na Hitchcock kujeru:
- Koma baya an hada da hawan jirgin sama a saman (yawanci mai jujjuyawa, sau da yawa wani tashar hawa, musamman bayan 1835); babban jirgin tsakiya na tsakiya; da kuma shingen bakin ciki a ƙasa
- Ya juya baya kafafu, sau da yawa a kunne ko ƙuƙwalwa cikin rabi na zinariya
- Ƙafar kafafu ta tashi don samar da kujera
- Wood na zabi: Maple; oak, Birch, poplar amfani da
- Kullun suna da kuskure ko suna da ƙafafun kafa
- Masu kallo a gaban, baya da kuma tarnaƙi; yana ɗora a kan shimfidar goshin gaba
- Sarakuna suna da ɗakunan wurare, mafi yawa ana yin su ne ko rush
- Matashi na katako: kwanduna na 'ya'yan itace, furanni, cornucopias, ganye, lyres
- Fusho mai laushi na ruwan rawaya
Tare da nasara ya zo masu kwaikwayo, kuma a tsawon lokaci, wani "Hitchcock kujera" ya fara nufin duk wani fentin da aka yi da launi mai launin fata wanda yayi kama da asali - wato, matsakaici a tsayi kuma yawanci a cikin siffar.
Tabbatar da Gaskiyar
Saitunan Hitchcock na farko sun kasance sun fara tun daga shekara ta 1825, lokacin da kamfanin ya fara suturta sa hannu a kan kujeru.
Duk da haka, wannan ƙwanƙwasa ya haifar da bambancin tare da madaidaicin kamfanin. Ga jerin lokaci:
Chairs Dating 1823-43: "L. Hitchcock Hitchcocks-birnin.
Chairs dating 1832-43: "Hitchcock, Alford & Co. Hitchcocks-birnin." Conn. Warranted. " (A wasu daga cikin waɗannan, "biyu" a cikin "Conn." An buga a baya.)
Chairs Dating 1843-52 : "L. Hitchcock. Unionville. Conn. Warranted." (Hitchcock ya kulla dangantaka da tsohon kamfaninsa, kuma ya fara sabon sahun a Unionville.)
Hitchcock ya mutu a shekara ta 1852. Tsohon ma'aikata a Hitchcocksville (yanzu Riverton) ya fadi. Daga bisani, a 1946, an dauke shi ne a matsayin sabon shafin Hitchcock Chair Co., wanda aikinsa shine ya sake gina kayan kayan asali; daga baya, ya fara samar da wasu bambancin. Wannan kamfani ya daina aiki a shekara ta 2006. An kori sassanta tare da haɗuwa da tsofaffin sutsi, tare da sa hannu "L.
Hitchcock Hitchcocks-birnin. Conn. Warranted. ", Ta amfani da baya" n "s, da kuma kara alama ta alamar kasuwanci da alama ta" HCCo ".
Gaskiya da Gaskiya
A baya a karni na 19, Hitchcock kujeru suka sayar da $ .50 zuwa $ 1.50. Yau, farashin ya fi girma, tare da kujeru daga 1825-43 - lokaci na kamfanoni na asali na Hitchcock - ƙaddamar da mafi kyawun: $ 200-300 don sanya hannu, kujera guda ɗaya a yanayin kirki, $ 1,200 don saiti na hudu. Kasuwanci tare da ƙananan stencils sau da yawa tafi mafi girma. Wasu daga cikin ayyukan da Kamfanin Hitchcock ya yi daga baya ya samu matsayi mai mahimmanci, musamman ma misalai ko kuma waɗanda aka yi a cikin shekarun 1940 da '50s.