American Furniture 2009

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.

 250 pages.

Includes essays: American Rococo Looking Glasses: From Maker’s Hand to Patron’s Home, by Luke Beckerdite; An Ark of the New Republic, by Nicholas R. Bell; Early Polychrome Chests from Hadley, Massachusetts: A Technical Investigation of Their Paint and Finish, by Susan L. Buck; The Compass Artist of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by Wendy A. Cooper, Patricia Edmonso, and Lisa M. Minardi; Paint-Decorated Furniture from Piedmont North Carolina, by June Lucas; The “Boston Chairs” of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia, by Philip D. Zimmerman; and Recent Writings on American Furniture: A Bibliography, by Gerald W. R. Ward.

BOOK REVIEWS
• Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living, Phyllis Ross; review by Christopher Long
• The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things, George Kubler; review by David F. Wood
• Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks, Morrison H. Heckscher, Martha H. Willoughby, and David F. Wood; review by Philip D. Zimmerman