Furniture of Spanish New Mexico: An OverviewTraditional Spanish New Mexican furniture can best be characterized as simple, having straight lines and good, honest proportions, all of which give these pieces a particular type of dignity. As is true of other handmade objects in a given society, furniture made in New Mexico mirrored the lives of New Mexicans in the 18th and 19th centuries isolation and a rugged existence. The earliest furniture was made for churches and a few rich families. Even