American Furniture 2016 [Hardcover]

Acknowledged 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 seventeenth century to the present.An annual publication forging a link between social history, American studies, and the decorative artsEditorial StatementLuke BeckerditeA Philadelphia-Carved Bust of Benjamin FranklinLuke Beckerdite and Alan MillerThomas Johnson, Hercules Courtenay, and the Dissemination of London Rococo DesignLuke BeckerditeGeorge A. Schastey and Company, Gilded Age CabinetmakersMoira GallagherThe Early Furniture of North Carolina's Cane Creek SettlementJune LucasStephen Dwight ReconsideredLuke Beckerdite and Margaret K. HoferBook ReviewsOak Furniture: The British Tradition: A History of Early Furniture in the British Isles and New England, Victor Chinneryreview by John FiskeMortise 39, Joshua A. Klein, ed.review by Richard OedelNow I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History, Witold Rybczynskireview by Gerald W. R. WardRecent Writing on American Furniture: A BibliographyGerald W. R. WardIndex