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Tables of Contents for American Furniture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editorial Statement
VII
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
IX
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
XI
Jonathan Prown
The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables
1
16
Patricia E. Kane
Eighteenth-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island
17
31
Mack Headley
Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island
48
30
Nancy Goyne Evans
Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmarkers
78
31
John Bivins
The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr.
109
53
Martha H. Willoughby
A Different Rhode Island Block-and-Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments
162
47
Wendy A. Cooper
Tara L. Gleason
New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture
209
15
Robert F. Trent
``America's Contribution to Craftsmanship'': The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture
224
25
Gerald W. R. Ward
The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport
249
27
Philip Zea
Book Reviews
276
25
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
Kenneth L. Ames
Jeffrey D. Kleiman
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
Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio
Heidi Nasstrom
Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography
301
10
Gerald W. R. Ward
Index
311