Editorial Statement

Luke Beckerdite

Preface

Allen M. Taylor

Introduction

Luke Beckerdite

The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style

Joan Barzilay Freund

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 Rural Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard

Brock Jobe

Clark Pearce

A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter's Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair

Peter Follansbee

Notes about New "Tinkham" Chairs

Robert F. Trent

Karin Goldstein

Book Reviews

The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America

Barry R. Harwood

review by Milo M. Naeve

Honore Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in Federal New York

Peter M. Kenny

Frances F. Bretter

Ulrich Leben

review by Wendy A. Cooper

New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods

Nancy Richards

Nancy Goyne Evans

Wendy A. Cooper

Michael S. Podmaniczky

review by Wallace B. Gusler

The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief

John T. Kirk

review by Scott T. Swank

Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840

Geoffrey Beard

review by Jeffrey H. Munger

Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

Ronald L. Hurst

Jonathan Prown

review by Robert A. Leath

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography

Gerald W. R. Ward

Index