American Furniture 1998

This volume features articles on late Baroque Boston seating furniture, Germanic influence on furniture early nineteenth-century design in Philadelphia, Randolph chairs, the Christian M. Nestell drawing book, the inlaid cherry furniture of Nathan Lombard, the Waldo family joined great chair, "Tinkham" chairs, as well as book reviews and bibliography of new books in the field.

LUKE BECKERDITE is the former Executive Director of the Chipstone Foundation http://www.chipstone.org/. He was previously an antique dealer and consultant and a research associate at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. Luke Beckerdite is currently a decorative arts consultant living in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Editorial Statement

VII

(2)

Luke Beckerdite

Preface

IX

(2)

Allen M. Taylor

Introduction

XI

Luke Beckerdite

The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style

1

(40)

Joan Barzilay Freund

Leigh Keno

Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820-1850

41

(40)

Charles L. Venable

Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered

81

(18)

Philip D. Zimmerman

The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America

99

(65)

Nancy Goyne Evans

Sophistication in Rural Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard

164

(33)

Brock Jobe

Clark Pearce

A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter's Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair

197

(18)

Peter Follansbee

Notes about New "Tinkham" Chairs

215

(24)

Robert F. Trent

Karin Goldstein

Book Reviews

239

(34)

The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America

Barry R. Harwood

review by Milo M. Naeve

Honore Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in Federal New York

Peter M. Kenny

Frances F. Bretter

Ulrich Leben

review by Wendy A. Cooper

New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods

Nancy Richards

Nancy Goyne Evans

Wendy A. Cooper

Michael S. Podmaniczky

review by Wallace B. Gusler

The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief

John T. Kirk

review by Scott T. Swank

Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840

Geoffrey Beard

review by Jeffrey H. Munger

Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

Ronald L. Hurst

Jonathan Prown

review by Robert A. Leath

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography

273

(12)

Gerald W. R. Ward

Index

285

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