American Furniture 1995

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Beckerdite

Regional Furniture/Regional Life
William N. Hosley

Furniture as Social History: Gender, Property, and Memory in the Decorative Arts
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Diversity and Regionalism in Rural
New England Furniture
Philip Zea

The Social Economy of the Preindustrial Joiner
in Western Connecticut, 1750-1800
Edward S. Cooke Jr.

Regions and the Study of Material Culture:
Explorations along the Connecticut River
Kevin M. Sweeney

Definition and Diaspora of Regional Style:
The Worcester County Model
Donna K. Baron

Hidden in Plain Sight: Disappearance and
Material Life in Colonial New York
Neil D. Kamil

Book Reviews

Tools: Working Wood in Eighteenth-Century America,
James M. Gaynor and Nancy L. Hagedorn;
review by Barbara McLean Ward

Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Katherine S. Howe, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen,
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, Simon Jervis,
Hans Ottomeyer, Mark Bascou, Ann Claggett Wood,
and Sophia Riefstahl; review by Edward S. Cooke Jr.

Drama in Design: The Life and Craft of Charles Rohlfs,
Michael L. James; review by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio

Living in Style: Fine Furniture in Victorian Quebec,
edited by John R. Porter; review by Kenneth L. Ames

The Complete Book of Shaker Furniture,
Timothy D. Rieman and Jean M. Burks;
review by Robert P. Emlen

The Dunlap Cabinetmakers: A Tradition in Craftsmanship, Philip Zea and Donald Dunlap, with measured drawings by John Nelson; review by Philip D. Zimmerman

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography
Gerald W. R. Ward