Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...desk. The mahogany masterpiece was no curlicued Versailles settee or crested English bureau. It was a stately secretary of distinctly American block-and-shell design, crafted in 1760 by the Goddard-Townsend cabinetmakers of Newport, R.I. "For years, Europeans have given us an inferiority complex," says furniture dealer Harold Sack, 78, who bought the desk for an anonymous client, believed to be Texas billionaire Robert Bass. "To finally see American furniture taken as an important art form is enormously gratifying...
...younger, forced-growth trees that are planted today. "All the great wood was used up in the 18th century," maintains Matthew Weigman of Sotheby's. The furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile" at the beholder. "Viewing the desk is a religious experience," says Sack. "The grain ignites; there's inner fire in the wood...