Virginia Sectional FurnitureVirginia Sectional Furniture

Explore nineteenth-century sectional furniture design, construction and use through the detailed field notes and on-the-spot photographs of long-time furniture collector and historian Hal Stuart. For more than a decade, Mr. Stuart studied a unique Virginia furniture form that was divided by families, obscured by vague description, and nearly wiped-out by the American Civil War. His discoveries are derided by many in the antique and decorative arts trades as trivial. Even Antiques Roadshow turned its back on the man and his findings when they brought their show to Richmond, Virginia. Now you can judge for yourself the veracity of the story behind 17 different antebellum Virginia sectional sofas and settees, and their unique connections to American and Virginia history.