American Furniture 1996

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Beckerdite

Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Reform Movement
in Furniture Design: The J. Matthew Meier and
Ernest Hagen Commission of 1882–1885
Milo M. Naeve

Frog Backs and Turkey Legs: The Nomenclature of
Vernacular Seating Furniture, 1740–1850
Nancy Goyne Evans

Designs for Philadelphia Carvers
Richard H. Randall, Jr.

Is It Phyfe?
Deborah Dependahl Waters

Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition
Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander

The Rococo, the Grotto, and the Philadelphia High Chest
Jonathan Prown and Richard Miller

Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810–1840
Maurie D. McInnis and Robert A. Leath

Boston and New York Leather Chairs: A Reappraisal
Roger Gonzales and Daniel Putnam Brown, Jr.

Admitted into the Mysteries: The Benjamin Bucktrout Masonic Master’s Chair
F. Carey Howlett

Immigrant Carvers and the Development of the Rococo Style in New York, 1750–1770
Luke Beckerdite

The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence
Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller

Book Reviews

American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640–1940, William C. Ketchum, Jr., and the Museum of American Folk Art; review by Bert Denker

Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker, Mary E. Lyons; review by Ted Landsmark

Material Culture of the American Freemasons,
John D. Hamilton; review by William D. Moore

The Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700–1840,
John A. Fleming; review by Francis J. Puig

“The Best the Country Affords”: Vermont Furniture, 1765–1850, Kenneth Joel Zogry, and Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist, Charles A. Robinson, with an introduction by Philip Zea; review by Edwin A. Churchill