Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Luke Beckerdite
Survival of the Fittest: The Lloyd Family’s Furniture Legacy
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley
Furniture Fakes from the Chipstone Collection
Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller
Pennsylvania Clouded Limestone: Its Quarrying, Processing, and Use in the Stone Cutting, Furniture, and Architectural Trades
R. Curt Chinnici
Manuscripts, Marks, and Material Culture: Sources for Understanding the Joiner's Trade in Seventeenth Century America
Peter Follansbee
The Claypoole Family Joiners of Philadelphia: Their Legacy and the Context of Their Work
Andrew Brunk
The Politics of the Caned Chair
Glenn Adamson
The Quiet Canon: Tradition and Exclusion in American Furniture Scholarship
Jonathan Prown and Katherine Hemple Prown
An Early Cupboard Fragment from the Harvard College Joinery Tradition
Robert F. Trent and Michael Podmaniczky
Book Reviews
The Furniture of Sam Maloof
Review by Glenn Adamson
Made In Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett
Review by Glenn Adamson
Encyclopedia of Furniture Materials, Trades and Techniques
Review by Gerald W. R. Ward
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Review by Gerald W. R. Ward
Willard’s Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900
Review by David Wood and Robert C. Cheney
An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum
Review by Kenneth L. Ames