American Furniture 2013 (American Furniture Annual)

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.Table of ContentsEditorial Statement, Luke BeckerditeThe Early Work of John Townsend in the Christopher Townsend Shop Traditon, Erik Gronning and Amy CoesNew Insights on 'the Virginia Royal Governor's Chair, Leroy GravesScientific Imaging Techniques and New Insights on the WH Cabinetmaker: A Southern Mystery Continues, F. Carey Howlett and Kathy Z. GillisThe Missing Chapter in the Life of Thomas Day, Patricia Dane Rogers and Laurel Crone SneedA Shadow of a 'Magnitude: The Furniture of Thomas Cook and Richard Parkin by 'Carswell Rush BerlinPhiladelphia Furniture, and the Pennsylvania 'Germans: A 'Reevaluation by Lisa MinardiBOOK REVIEWSMahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America, Jennifer L. Andersonreview by Allan BreedStretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers, Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann IIIreview by Dennis CarrThe Art of Thomas Nisbet, Master Cabinetmaker, David Nasbyreview by Laura Fecych SpragueTexas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840 - 1880, Vol. 2, Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren, with a foreword by Don Carletonreview by Gerald W.R. Ward