American Furniture 2005

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Early Rhode Island Turning
Erik Kyle Gronning and Dennis Andrew Carr

Mannerism in Early American Furniture:
Connoisseurship, Intention, and Theatricality
Glenn Adamson

Structure, Style, and Evolution: The Sack-Back Windsor Armchair
David R. Pesuit

New York Card Tables, 1800-1825
Philip D. Zimmerman

Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town
Joshua W. Lane and Donald P. White III

Book Reviews
Connecticut Valley Furniture: Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750–1800, Thomas P. Kugelman and Alice K. Kugelman, with Robert Lionetti et al.; review by William Hosley

John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, Morrison H. Heckscher, with the assistance of Lori Zabar; review by Gerald W.R. Ward

The Artisan of Ipswich: Craftsmanship and Continuity in Colonial New England, Robert Tarule; review by Barbara McLean Ward

The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour, Robert D. Mussey Jr.; review by Philip Zea

Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics,
and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517–1751, Neil Kamil; review by
Robert F. Trent

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