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American Furniture 1998 (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:

1. The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style; Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno

2. Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820-1850; Charles L. Venable

3. Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered; Philip D. Zimmerman

4. The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early 19-Century America; Nancy Goyne Evans

5. Sophistication in Central Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard; Brock Jobe and Clark Pearce

6. A 17th-Century Carpenter's Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair; Peter Follansbee

7. Notes about New "Tinkham" Chairs; Karen Goldstein and Robert F. Trent

BOOK REVIEWS:

1. The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in 19th-Century America, Barry R. Harwood; review by Milo M. Naeve

2. Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York, Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter, and Ulrich Leben; review by Wendy A. Cooper

3. New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky; review by Wallace B. Gusler

4. The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief, John T. Kirk; review by Scott T. Swank

5. Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840, Geoffrey Beard; review by Jeffrey H. Munger

6. Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown; review by Robert A. Leath

7. Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography by Gerald W. R. Ward

VOL 1998, 293 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover

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