Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.


Contents
American Furniture 1994

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Beckerdite

Identifying and Understanding Repairs and Structural Problems in Windsor Furniture
Nancy Goyne Evans

Architect-Designed Furniture in Eighteenth-Century Virginia: The Work of William Buckland and William Bernard Sears
Luke Beckerdite

Leon Marcotte: Cabinetmaker and Interior Decorator
Nina Gray

John Cogswell and Boston Bombé Furniture: Thirty-Five Years of Revolution in Politics and Design
Robert Mussey and Anne Rogers Haley

Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves
Peter M. Kenny

Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style
Robert A. Leath

A Masonic Master's Chair Revealed
Susan Buck

English Furniture Pattern Books in Eighteenth-Century America
Morrison H. Heckscher

The Work of Clotworthy Stephenson, William Hodgson, and Henry Ingle in Richmond, Virginia, 1787–1806
Sumpter T. Priddy III and Martha C. Vick

Book Reviews

Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast
Review by David Barquist

American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
Review by John Hays

Clock Making in New England, 1725–1825: An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection
Review by Thomas S. Michie

New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees
Review by Gerald W. R. Ward