Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Jonathan Prown
The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables
Patricia E. Kane
Eighteenth-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island
Mack Headley
Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island
Nancy Goyne Evans
Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmakers
John Bivins
The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr.
Martha H. Willoughby
A Different Rhode Island Block-and-Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments
Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason
New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture
Robert F. Trent
“America’s Contribution to Craftsmanship”: The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture
Gerald W. R. Ward
The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport
Philip Zea
Useful Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750–1850,
Review by Margaretta M. Lovell
The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies
Review by Jean M. Burks
Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America’s Furniture City
Review by Barry R. Harwood
There’s a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home
Review by Philip D. Zimmerman
The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
Review by Philip D. Zimmerman
Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Review by Heidi Nasstrom