Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.
Editorial Statement -- Luke Beckerdite
Early Rhode Island Turning -- Erik Kyle Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr
Mannerism in Early America Furniture: Connoisseurship, Intention, and Theatricality -- Glenn Adamson
Structure, Style, and Evolution: The Sack Back Windsor Armchair -- David Pesuit
New York Card Tables, 1800-1825 -- Philip D. Zimmerman
Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town -- Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White, III
BOOK REVIEWSConnecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800, Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman, with Robert Lionetti, et. al.review by William Holsey
John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, Morrison H. Heckscher, with assistance of Lori Zabarreview by Gerald W. R. Ward
The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Continuity in Colonial New England, Robert Tarulereview by Barbara McLean Ward
The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour, Robert D. Mussey, Jr.review by Philip Zea
Fortress fo the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751, Neil Kamilreview by Robert F. Trent
Recent Writings on American Furniture: A Bibliography -- Gerald W. R. Ward
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