American Furniture 1998

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Beckerdite

The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style
Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno

Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820–1850
Charles L. Venable

Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered
Philip D. Zimmerman

The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus
on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early
Nineteenth-Century America
Nancy Goyne Evans

Sophistication in Rural Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard
Brock Jobe and Clark Pearce

A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter’s Conceit:
The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair
Peter Follansbee

Notes about New “Tinkham” Chairs
Robert F. Trent and Karin Goldstein

Book Reviews

The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood; review by Milo M. Naeve

Honoré Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York, Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter, and Ulrich Leben; review by Wendy A. Cooper

New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky; review by Wallace B. Gusler

The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief, John T. Kirk; review by Scott T. Swank

Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530–1840, Geoffrey Beard; review by
Jeffrey H. Munger

Southern Furniture, 1680–1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown; review by Robert A. Leath

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