American Furniture 1999 Book

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

BOOK REVIEWS Useful Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750-1850, Philip Zea - Margaretta M. Lovell The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies, John Kassay - Jean M. Burks Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America's Furniture City, Christian G. Carron, with contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Jeffrey D. Kleiman, and Joel Lefever - Barry R. Harwood There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye - Philip D. Zimmerman The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz - Philip D. Zimmerman Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio - Heidi Nasstrom