American Furniture 1999

by Luke Beckerdite (Editor)

The Palladian style in Rhode Island furniture, eighteenth-century Newport cabinet shops and the furniture-making trades, the influence of Windsor chairmaking in early Federal Rhode Island, Rhode Island influence in the work of two North Carolina cabinetmakers, the accounts of Job Townsend, Jr., Providence provenances and pitch-pediments, serpentine furniture of colonial Newport, plus the usual book reviews, and bibliography of recent writing.

Table of Contents

The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Fly Tea Tables - Patricia E. Kane
Eighteenth-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island - Mack Headley
Politics, Enterprise, and The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island - Nancy Goyne Evans
Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmakers - John Bivins
The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr. - Martha H. Willoughby
A Different Rhode Island Block and Shell Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments - Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason
New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture - Robert F. Trent
America's Contribution to The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture - Gerald W. R. Ward
The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport - Philip Zea

BOOK REVIEWSUseful Improvements, Innumerable Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750-1850, Philip Zea - Margaretta M. Lovell
The Book of American Windsor Styles and Technologies, John Kassay - Jean M. Burks
Grand Rapids The Story of America's Furniture City, Christian G. Carron, with contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Jeffrey D. Kleiman, and Joel Lefever - Barry R. Harwood
There's a Bed in the The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye - Philip D. Zimmerman
The Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz - Philip D. Zimmerman
Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio - Heidi Nasstrom

340 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000