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American Furniture 2002 (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: 1. New Horizons in Charleston Rococo Furniture by Luke Beckerdite 2. Furniture Fakes in the Chipstone Collection by Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller 3. The Politics of the Cane Chair by Glenn Adamson 4. The Quiet Canon: Tradition and Exclusion in American Decorative Arts by Jonathan Prown and Katherine Hemphill Prown 5. Survival of the Fittest: The Lloyd Family Furniture Legacy by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley 6. Pennsylvania Clouded Limestone: Its Use in Furniture and Architecture by R. Curt Chinnici 7. From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom, Jr. by Peter Kenny 8. An Early Cupboard Fragment from the Harvard College Joinery Tradition by Robert F. Trent and Michael Podmaniczky BOOK REVIEWS:
Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography by Gerald W. R. Ward
VOL 2002, 300 pgs, 8.5x11, b&w with color sections, softcover
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