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Tables of Contents for Four Centuries of American Furniture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
Christian G. Carron
Preface to the Second Edition
xi
Preface to the First Edition
xii
Acknowledgments
xiii
The Jacobean Period: Joiners and Cabinetmakers in the New World
1
16
Architecture
4
1
The 17th-Century Furniture Trade
4
2
The Furniture
6
11
William and Mary: The Years of Transition
17
16
Classical and Oriental Influences
19
2
Architecture
21
1
The New Style
21
12
Queen Anne: The Line of Beauty
33
22
Architecture
35
1
The Style
36
1
Oriental Influences
36
1
Classical Ideas
37
1
Persistence of Earlier Designs
38
1
Woods and Finishes
39
1
The Upholsterer and His Wares
39
3
Other Furniture
42
4
Seating Furniture
46
2
Regional Characteristics
48
7
The Chippendale Style
55
28
Architecture
57
1
The New Style
58
2
Chinese, Gothic, Rococo
60
2
English Influence
62
1
The Furniture
62
21
Furniture of the Federal Period
83
24
Neoclassical in America
85
1
English Origins
86
1
Hepplewhite, Sheraton, and Shearer
86
1
Specialization in the Furniture Trades
87
1
Newport After the Revolution
88
1
Boston
88
1
Salem
88
1
Lolling Chairs and Salem Secretaries
89
1
Philadelphia
90
1
New York
91
1
Drawing Rooms
92
6
Bedrooms
98
4
Dining Furniture
102
1
Desks and Secretaries
103
1
Windsors
104
3
American Empire
107
26
French Empire
109
1
English Regency
110
1
Technological Innovation
110
1
American Empire
111
1
Architecture
111
1
The Boston Furniture Trade
111
2
Philadelphia Practices
113
1
New York: Center of Style
114
1
Chairs
114
3
Sofas
117
2
Parlor Furniture
119
4
Sideboards
123
2
Bedroom Furniture
125
3
Pillar and Scroll
128
5
The Country Cabinetmaker
133
22
Country Furniture
135
2
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
137
2
Connecticut
139
5
Daniel Clay of Greenfield, Massachusetts
144
3
The Dominys of Long Island
147
3
The Dunlaps of Southern New Hampshire
150
1
Samuel Gragg
151
1
Country and High-Style Furniture
152
3
Southern Furniture
155
30
The Williamsburg School
157
8
Maryland Furniture
165
3
Charleston and Albemarle Sound Furniture
168
4
Carolina Piedmont
172
3
Georgia
175
2
Kentucky and Tennessee
177
1
Louisiana
178
3
Texas
181
4
Furniture of the Folk: Shaker and Pennsylvania German
185
22
Pennsylvania Germans and Their Furniture
187
7
Three Schools of Cabinetwork
194
1
The Shakers
195
2
Shaker Furniture
197
10
Victorian Furniture: The Gothic and Rococo Revivals
207
20
The Victorian Era in America
209
2
Gothic Revival
211
3
Alexander Roux
214
1
Rococo Revival
214
1
Parlor Furniture
215
6
Bedroom Furniture
221
1
Belter Furniture
222
2
George Henkels
224
1
Cast-Iron Furniture
224
1
Furniture of Papier-Mache
224
3
Victorian Furniture: The Renaissance Revival
227
20
Renaissance Revival: Early Stages
229
1
Neo-Grec
230
2
Architecture
232
1
The Dining Room
232
1
Parlor Suites
233
4
Furnishing a Bedroom
237
1
Hall Furniture
238
2
Innovators: Hunzinger's Chairs
240
1
Wooton Desks
241
2
Mid-19th Century Furniture Factories
243
1
Mitchell and Rammelsberg
243
2
The Grand Rapids Furniture Industry
245
1
The Paine Furniture Company in Boston
245
2
The Eastlake and Other Revivals
247
20
Origins
249
1
William Morris
250
1
Architecture: Richardson
250
1
Charles Eastlake
250
2
Medieval Inspiration
252
1
The Oriental Craze
253
1
Bedroom Furniture
254
2
Parlor Seating
256
3
Tables and Case Furniture
259
2
The Turkish Corner
261
1
Colonial Revival
262
1
Wicker, Horn, and Rustic Furniture
263
2
Bentwood
265
2
The American Mission: 1900--1915
267
18
Art Nouveau
269
2
The Arts and Crafts Movement
271
6
Mission Furniture: Gustav Stickley
277
3
Wicker and Rustic Furniture
280
1
Stickley's Competitors
281
4
Traditional Revivals for a Conservative Public
285
22
Golden Oak for the Masses
288
1
Furnishing the Middle Class Home of 1900
289
3
Furnishing the Post-World War I House
292
7
Furnishing the Post-World War II House
299
3
Early American and Provincial Revivals
302
1
Mediterranean
303
1
Country Furniture
304
1
Other Revivals
305
2
Modern Furniture, 1920--1941: Is It Here to Stay?
307
14
Modernism Rejected
309
1
European Influences
309
1
French Art Deco and the Paris Exposition of 1925
310
1
Art Moderne
311
1
Art Deco in the 1920s and Early 1930s
311
1
Modernism Accepted
312
3
Scandinavian Modern
315
2
Streamlining and Biomorphic Design
317
1
The 1941 Organic Design Competition
318
3
America Takes the Lead: 1950s and 1960s Modern
321
26
The Modern Home in the 1950s
324
1
Phases of Modern: Biomorphic
324
2
Contemporary
326
2
Scandinavian
328
2
The New Style
330
1
Bauhaus Aesthetic
330
10
Modernism in the 1960s and 1970s
340
6
The Challenge to Modernism
346
1
Post-Modernism: Avant-Grade Furniture Since 1975
347
20
High-Tech
349
1
Neo-Modernism
350
1
The Critique of Modern: Venturi and Jencks
351
1
The Memphis Style
352
2
American Memphis
354
4
Studio Furniture: The Second Generation
358
3
Furniture as Art
361
3
Global Furniture and Environmental Concerns
364
3
Bibliography
367
16
Index
383