Duncan Phyfe was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.
Although he did not create any new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a whole generation of cabinetmakers and defining, somehow, an American own style of furnishings.
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“We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.”
—Isadora Duncan (1878–1927)