Goddard & Townsend
American
Goddard-Townsend furniture is from the workshops of Newport, Rhode Island. The families of John and James Goddard and Job and Christopher Townsend were craftsmen who worked as house and ship joiners as well as cabinetmakers. John Townsend made the earliest labeled block-front, a document chest, in 1756 and the Townsend-Goddard workshops continued to produce furniture in Newport until the early 1800s. The Goddard and Townsend families intermarried frequently and created a tightly knit network of craftsmen that resisted changes in styles of design, as witnessed by the relatively few variations that were made over the entire course of production.
source: https://www.incollect.com/articles/block-fronts-the-appeal-of-an-american-design-and-its-regional-interpretation
Goddard Townsend furniture
source: https://www.incollect.com/articles/block-fronts-the-appeal-of-an-american-design-and-its-regional-interpretation
Goddard Townsend furniture
