American Furniture 2001

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Beckerdite

First Flowers of the Wilderness: Mannerist Furniture from a Northern Essex County, Massachusetts, Shop
Robert F. Trent, Peter Follansbee, and Alan Miller

When Good Cabinetmakers Made Bad Furniture:
The Career and Work of David Evans
Eleanore P. Gadsden

Early New York Turned Chairs:
A Stoelendraaier’s Conceit
Erik Gronning

The Lisle Desk-and-Bookcase: A Rhode Island Icon
Brock Jobe

A Salem Cabinetmakers’ Price Book
Dean Thomas Lahikainen

Two Early Eighteenth-Century Schränke:
Rare Survivals of the German Joiner’s Art in
the Hudson River Valley
Peter M. Kenny

Book Reviews

The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families, Betty C. Monkman; review by Elisabeth D. Garrett

Early American Decorative Arts, 1620–1860: A Handbook for Interpreters, Rosemary Troy Krill with Pauline K. Eversmann; review by Gilian Ford Shallcross

Rural New England Furniture: People, Place, and Production, Peter Benes, editor; review by Anne Woodhouse

American Furniture: Understanding Styles, Construction, and Quality, John T. Kirk; review by Ted Landsmark