Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Luke Beckerdite
Protective Covers for Furniture and its Contents
Linda Baumgarten
Origins of the Rococo Style in New York Furniture and Interior Architecture
Luke Beckerdite
The Stock-in-Trade of John Hancock and Company
David H. Conradsen
Scandinavian Modern Furniture in the Arts and Crafts Period: The Collaboration of the Greenes and the Halls
Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
Design Transmission in Vernacular Seating Furniture: The Influence of Philadelphia and Baltimore Styles on Chairmaking from the Chesapeake Bay to the "West"
Nancy Goyne Evans
American or English Furniture? Some Choices in the 1760's
Graham Hood
The Conservator as Curator: Combining Scientific Analysis and Traditional Connoisseurship
Gregory Landrey
Roman Gusto in New England: An Eighteenth-Century Boston Furniture Designer and His Shop
Alan Miller
Mid-Atlantic Easy Chairs, 1770 –1820: Old Questions and New Evidence
Robert F. Trent
A Catalogue of American Easy Chairs
Mark Anderson and Robert F. Trent
The Wendell Family Furniture at Strawbery Banke Museum
Gerald W. R. Ward and Karin E. Cullity
Book Reviews
Treasures of State: Fine and Decorative Arts in the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State
Review by Elizabeth Pitzer Gusler
American Rococo, 1750—1775: Elegance in Ornament
Review by Ronald L. Hurst
The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg: A Cultural Study.
Review by Luke Beckerdite
American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey; 1650-1800
Review by Neil Duff Kamil