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 seventeenth century to the present.
Editorial Statement, Luke Beckerdite
The Early Work of John Townsend in the Christopher Townsend Shop Traditon, Erik Gronning and Amy Coes
New Insights on 'the Virginia Royal Governor's Chair, Leroy Graves
Scientific Imaging Techniques and New Insights on the WH Cabinetmaker: A Southern Mystery Continues, F. Carey Howlett and Kathy Z. Gillis
The Missing Chapter in the Life of Thomas Day, Patricia Dane Rogers and Laurel Crone Sneed
A Shadow of a 'Magnitude: The Furniture of Thomas Cook and Richard Parkin by 'Carswell Rush Berlin
Philadelphia Furniture, and the Pennsylvania 'Germans: A 'Reevaluation by Lisa Minardi
BOOK REVIEWS
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America, Jennifer L. Andersonreview by Allan Breed
Stretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers, Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann IIIreview by Dennis Carr
The Art of Thomas Nisbet, Master Cabinetmaker, David Nasbyreview by Laura Fecych Sprague
Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840 - 1880, Vol. 2, Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren, with a foreword by Don Carletonreview by Gerald W.R. Ward