American Furniture 2012

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

The Hands that Rocked the Cradle: Interpretations in the Life of an Object
R. Ruthie Dibble

“The one Mrs. Trist would chuse”: Thomas Jefferson, the Trist Family, and the Monticello Campeachy Chair
Sumpter Priddy III, Adam T. Erby, and Jenna Huffman

The Kahle-Henson School of Punched-Tin Paneled Furniture
Kurt C. Russ and Jeffrey S. Evans

Boston Baroque Easy Chairs, 1705–1740
Robert F. Trent

William Lightfoot Price: His Furniture and Its Context 116
Robert Edwards

Book Reviews

The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945–1985
Harold B. Nelson, with contributions by Jeremy Adamson,
Jason T. Busch, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, Kay Sekimachi,
and Tia Vasiliou; review by Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez

The Story of Eames Furniture. 2 vols.
Vol. 1, The Early Years. Vol. 2, The Herman Miller Age
Marilyn Neuhart with John Neuhart; review by John Stuart Gordon

Make a Joint Stool from a Tree: An Introduction to 17th-Century Joinery
Jennie Alexander and Peter Follansbee, with an introduction by Robert F. Trent; review by Charles F. Hummel

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Peter M. Kenny, Michael K. Brown, Frances F. Bretter, and Matthew A. Thurlow; review by Wendy A. Cooper

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