Dyakiv M. Urban furniture making in Galychyna in the XIX-XX th centuries: history, typology, stylistic peculiarities.

The thesis investigates historical and social phenomena and events, connected with the genesis of urban furniture making in Galychyna.A set of unknown works is introduced into scientific use. Considerable attention is paid to urban furniture making of the XIX-XX th centuries, where the process of search for new artistic forms of furniture articles through the use of a national cultural tradition is activated. The thesis proves that furniture business in the first half of the XIX th century functioned only in workshops and their activities had a creative artistic direction and only in the second half of the XIX th century a factory of bent-wood furniture appeared in Lviv. Since 1940 small factories were reorganized which introduced a completely different method of manufacturing shield-furniture. The author shows that under new conditions artistic furniture making acquired new design tendencies through the synthesis of innovations traditions.