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Book SynopsisAcknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.
Table of ContentsConnoisseurship, Intention, and the Problem of Mannerism; Glenn Adamson; Early Rhode Island Turning; Dennis Carr and Erik Kyle Gronning; Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town; Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White, III; An Eighteenth-Century Price Book for Philadelphia Furniture; Alan Miller; Structure, Style, and Evolution: The American Windsor Armchair; David Pesuit; Neoclassicism in Norfolk, Virginia: The Early Furniture of James Woodward; Sumpter Priddy, III; New York Card Tables, 1800-1825; Philip D. Zimmerman.
