American
Furniture 1997
Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Luke Beckerdite
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 Goyne Evans;
review by Jonathan Prown
American Furniture of the 18th Century: History,Technique,
Structure, Jeffrey P. Greene; review by
Myrna Kaye
Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century, Pat Kirkham;
review by Glenn Adamson and Sarah Rich
Metalwork in Early America: Copper and Its Alloys
from the Winterthur Collection, Donald L.
Fennimore; review by David F. Wood
Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century,
Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert, eds.; review by Robert
F. Trent
American Case Furniture, 1680–1840: Selections
from the DAR Museum Collection, Patrick Sheary;
review by Gerald W. R. Ward
Making Furniture in Preindustrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and
Woodbury, Connecticut, Edward S. Cooke, Jr.;
review by Kevin M. Sweeney
