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American Furniture 1994 (American Furniture)
Luke Beckerdite
Begun in 1993, this annual provides a forum on American furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. The only journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present. Plenty of heavy reading with helpful illustrations. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial Statement Luke Beckerdite Preface Allen M. Taylor Introduction Luke Becerdite 1. Identifying and Understanding Repairs and Structural Problems in Windsor Furniture by Nancy Goyne Evans 2. Architect-Designed Furniture in 18th Century Virginia: The Work of William Buckland and William Bernard Sears by Luke Beckerdite 3. Leon Marcotte: Cabinetmaker and Interior Decorator by Nina Gray, John Cogswell and Boston Bombé 4. Furniture: 35 Years of Revolution in Politics and Design by Robert Mussey and Anne Rogers Haley 5. Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York's Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves by Peter M. Kenny 6. Jean Berger's Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style by Robert A. Leath 7. A Masonic Master's Chair Revealed by Susan Buck 8. English Furniture Pattern Books in 18th Century America by Morrison H. Heckscher 9. The Work of Clotworthy Stephenson, William Hodgson and Henry Ingle in Richmond, Virginia, 1787-1806 by Sumpter T. Priddy III and Martha C. Vick 10. BOOK REVIEWS: 1. Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, organized and edited by Brock Jobe; review by David L. Barquist 2. American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, David L. Barquist; review by John Hays 3. Clock Making in New England, 1725-1825: An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection, Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, edited by Caroline F. Sloat; review by Thomas S. Michie 4. New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees, Sheila Connor; review by Gerald W.R. Ward 5. Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography, Gerald W. R. Ward
VOL 1994, 265 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover
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