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American Furniture 1997 (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. A "Preponderance of Pineapples": The Problem of Southern Furniture by Jonathan Brown 2. Dutch Trade and Its Influence on 17th-Century Chesapeake Furniture by Robert A. Leath 3. The Convergence and Divergence of Three Stylistic Traditions in Charleston Neoclassical Case Furniture, 1785-1800 by John Bivins 4. The Holmes-Edwards Library Bookcase and the Origins of the German School in Pre-Revolutionary Charleston by J. Thomas Savage 5. Crossroads of Culture: 18th-Century Furniture from Western Maryland by Sumpter Priddy III and Joan K. Quinn 6. Irish Influences on Cabinetmaking in Virginia's Rappahannock River Basin by Ronald L. Hurst 7. Religion, Artisanry, and Cultural Identity: The Huguenot Experience in South Carolina, 1680-1725 by Luke Beckerdite 8. The Furniture of Winchester, by Virginia Wallace Gusler 9. Leather Bottoms, Satin Haircloth, and Spanish Beard: Conserving Virginia Upholstered Seating Furniture by Leroy Graves and F. Carey Howlett 10. Adaptation and Reinterpretation: The Transfer of Furniture Styles from Philadelphia to Winchester to Tennessee by Anne S. McPherson 11. Staples for Genteel Living: The Importation of London Household Furnishings into Charleston During the 1780s by Elizabeth A. Fleming BOOK REVIEWS: 1. American Windsor Chairs, Nancy Goyne Evans; review by Jonathan Prown 2. American Furniture of the 18th Century: History, Technique, Structure, Jeffrey P. Greene; review by Myrna Kaye 3. Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century, Pat Kirkham; review by Glenn Adamson and Sarah Rich 4. Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection, Donald L. Fennimore; review by David F. Wood 5. Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the 18th Century, Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert, eds.; review by Robert F. Trent 6. American Case Furniture, 1680-1840: Selections from the DAR Museum Collection, Patrick Sheary; review by Gerald W. R. Ward 7. Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.; review by Kevin M. Sweeney
VOL 1997, 407 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover
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