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New! American Furniture 2003 (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. Collectors and furniture makers will find these essays rich in detail about the history and society of the last four centuries, as viewed in the context of furniture. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Tilt-Top Tea Tables and 18th-Century Consumerism by Sarah Neale Fayen 2. New Discoveries in Charleston Rococo Furniture by Luke Beckerdite 3. From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom Jr. by Peter Kenny 4. The Incredible Elastic Chairs of Samuel Gragg by Michael Podmaniczky 5. The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of 20th-Century American Decorative Arts by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. 6. Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Beds by Nancy Goyne Evans 7. "Screwy Feet:" High Chests from Chester County, Pennsylvania and Frederick County, Maryland by Laura Stutman 8. The John B. Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture in Context by Lance Humphreys BOOK REVIEWS:
Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography by Gerald W. R. Ward
VOL 2003, 300 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, soft cover
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