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American Furniture 2004 (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. A Table's Tale: Craft, Art and Opportunity in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia by Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller 2. "The Account Book of Benjamin Baker -- Dennis Andrew Carr" High Craft Along the Mohawk: Early Woodwork from the Albany Area of New York by Robert F. Trent, Alan Miller, Glenn Adamson, and Harry Mack Truax II 3. John Singleton Copley's Furniture and the Art of Invention by Jonathan Prown 4. Southern Sophistication on the Early Frontier: The Inlaid Furniture of Washington County, Ohio, 1788-1825 by Andrew Richmond Opulence Abroad: Honoré Lannuier's Gilded Furniture in Trinidad de Cuba by Peter M. Kenny
275 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover
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