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American Furniture 1999 (American Furniture)
Luke Beckerdite,Allen M. Taylor,Jonathan Prown
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 Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables by Patricia E. Kane 2. 18th-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island by Mack Headley 3. Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island by Nancy Goyne Evans 4. Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmakers by John Bivins 5. The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr. by Martha H. Willoughby 6. A Different Rhode Island Block and Shell Story: Providence, Provenances and Pitch-Pediments by Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason 7. New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture by Robert F. Trent 8. "America's Contribution to Craftsmanship": The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture by Gerald W. R. Ward 9. The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport by Philip Zea
BOOK REVIEWS: 1. Useful Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750-1850, Philip Zea; review by Margaretta M. Lovell 2. The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies, John Kassay; review by Jean M. Burks 3. Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America's Furniture City, Christian G. Carron, with contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Jeffrey D. Kleiman, and Joel Lefever; review by Barry R. Harwood 4. There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye; review by Philip D. Zimmerman 5. The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz; review by Philip D. Zimmerman 6. Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio; review by Heidi Nasstrom 7. Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography by Gerald W. R. Ward
VOL 1999, 319 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served.
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