American Furniture 1998 (American Furniture Annual)

This volume features articles on late Baroque Boston seating furniture, Germanic influence on furniture early nineteenth-century design in Philadelphia, Randolph chairs, the Christian M. Nestell drawing book, the inlaid cherry furniture of Nathan Lombard, the Waldo family joined great chair, "Tinkham" chairs, as well as book reviews and bibliography of new books in the field.

Table of Contents

The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style - Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno
Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820-1850 - Charles L. Venable
Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered - Philip D. Zimmerman
The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America - Nancy Goyne Evans
Sophistication in Central Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard - Brock Jobe and Clark Pearce
A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter's Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair - Peter Follansbee
Notes about New Tinkham”Chairs - Karen Goldstein and Robert F. Trent

BOOK REVIEWSThe Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood - Milo M. Naeve
HonoréLannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York, Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter, and Ulrich Leben - Wendy A. Cooper
New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky - Wallace B. Gusler
The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief, John T. Kirk - Scott T. Swank
Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840, Geoffrey Beard - Jeffrey H. Munger
Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown - Robert A. Leath