American Furniture 2000

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Beckerdite

The Early Furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend
Luke Beckerdite

“The True Antiques of Tomorrow”: Furniture by
the Potthast Brothers of Baltimore, 1892–1975
Catherine Rogers Arthur

The Genesis of Neoclassical Style in Baltimore Furniture
Sumpter Priddy III, J. Michael Flanigan,
and Gregory R. Weidman

A New Suspect: Baltimore Cabinetmaker
Edward Priestley
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley

New Insights on John Cadwalader’s
Commode-Seat Side Chairs
Leroy Graves and Luke Beckerdite

Patronage in Early Salem: The Symonds Shops
and Their Customers
Martha H. Willoughby

Cultural Negotiations: A Study of the New
Mexican Caja
Elizabeth A. Fleming

Book Reviews

The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski;
review by Neville Thompson

Art & Enterprise: American Decorative Art, 1825–1917, The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection, Donald C. Peirce; review by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio

Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680–1758, Jack Lindsey, with essays by Richard S. Dunn, Edward C. Carter II, and Richard Saunders; review by Philip D. Zimmerman

History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition, John Morley; review by Gerald W. R. Ward

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