American Furniture 1997
Luke Beckerdite, ed.

Chipstone Foundation
distributed by UPNE



Contents

A “Preponderance of Pineapples”: The Problem of Southern Furniture - Jonathan Prown
Dutch Trade and Its Influence on Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake Furniture - Robert A. Leath
The Convergence and Divergence of Three Stylistic Traditions in Charleston Neoclassical Case Furniture, 1785-1800 - John Bivins
The Holmes-Edwards Library Bookcase and the Origins of the German School in Pre-Revolutionary Charleston - J. Thomas Savage
Crossroads of Culture: Eighteenth-Century Furniture from Western Maryland - Sumpter Priddy III and Joan K. Quinn
Irish Influences on Cabinetmaking in Virginia's Rappahannock River Basin - Ronald L. Hurst
Religion, Artisanry, and Cultural Identity: The Huguenot Experience in South Carolina, 1680-1725 - Luke Beckerdite
The Furniture of Winchester, Virginia - Wallace Gusler
Leather Bottoms, Satin Haircloth, and Spanish Beard: Conserving Virginia Upholstered Seating Furniture - Leroy Graves and F. Carey Howlett
Adaptation and Reinterpretation: The Transfer of Furniture Styles from Philadelphia to Winchester to Tennessee - Anne S. McPherson
Staples for Genteel Living: The Importation of London Household Furnishings into Charleston During the 1780s - Elizabeth A. Fleming

BOOK REVIEWS
American Windsor Chairs, Nancy G. Evans - Jonathan Prown
• American Furniture of the 18th Century: History, Technique, Structure,
Jeffrey P. Greene - Myrna Kaye
• Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century,
Pat Kirkham - Glenn Adamson and Sarah Rich
• Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys from the Winterthur Collection,
Donald L. Fennimore - David F. Wood
• Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century,
Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert, editors - Robert F. Trent
• American Case Furniture, 1680-1840: Selections from the DAR Museum Collection,
Patrick Sheary - Gerald W. R. Ward
• Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut,
Edward S. Cooke, Jr. - Kevin M. Sweeney




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