American Furniture

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.

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

Luke Beckerdite

Preface

IX

Allen M. Taylor

Introduction

XI

Jonathan Prown

The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables

1

(16)

Patricia E. Kane

Eighteenth-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island

17

(31)

Mack Headley

Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island

48

(30)

Nancy Goyne Evans

Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmarkers

78

(31)

John Bivins

The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr.

109

(53)

Martha H. Willoughby

A Different Rhode Island Block-and-Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments

162

(47)

Wendy A. Cooper

Tara L. Gleason

New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture

209

(15)

Robert F. Trent

``America's Contribution to Craftsmanship'': The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture

224

(25)

Gerald W. R. Ward

The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport

249

(27)

Philip Zea

Book Reviews

276

(25)

Useful Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750--1850

Philip Zea

Margaretta M. Lovell

The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies

John Kassay

Jean M. Burks

Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America's Furniture City

Christian G. Carron

Kenneth L. Ames

Jeffrey D. Kleiman

Joel Lefever

Barry R. Harwood

There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home

Myrna Kaye

Philip D. Zimmerman

The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design

Galen Cranz

Philip D. Zimmerman

Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio

Heidi Nasstrom

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography

301

(10)

Gerald W. R. Ward

Index

311

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