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American Furniture 1996 (American Furniture Annual)
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 Beckerdite 1. Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Reform Movement in Furniture Design: The J. Matthew Meier and Ernest Hagen Commission of 1882-1885 by Milo M. Naeve 2. Frog Backs and Turkey Legs: The Nomenclature of Vernacular Seating Furniture, 1740-1850 by Nancy Goyne Evans 3. Designs for Philadelphia Carvers Richard H. Randall, Jr. Is It Phyfe? by Deborah Dependahl Waters 4. Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition by Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander 5. The Rococo, the Grotto, and the Philadelphia High Chest by Jonathan Prown and Richard Miller 6. Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810-1840 by Maurie D. McInnis and Robert A. Leath 7. Boston and New York Leather Chairs: A Reappraisal by Roger Gonzales and Daniel Putnam Brown, Jr. 8. Admitted into the Mysteries: The Benjamin Bucktrout Masonic Master's Chair by F. Carey Howlett 9. Immigrant Carvers and the Development of the Rococo Style in New York, 1750-1770 by Luke Beckerdite 10. The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence by Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller BOOK REVIEWS: 1. American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940, William C. Ketchum, Jr., and the Museum of American Folk Art; review by Bert Denker 2. Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker, Mary E. Lyons; review by Ted Landsmark 3. Material Culture of the American Freemasons, John D. Hamilton; review by William D. Moore 4. The Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840, John A. Fleming; review by Francis J. Puig 5. The Best the Country Affords": Vermont Furniture, 1765-1850, Kenneth Joel Zogry, and Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist, Charles A. Robinson, with an introduction by Philip Zea; review by Edwin A. Churchill
VOL 1996, 344 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover
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