Editorial Statement

Luke Beckerdite

Preface

Allen M. Taylor

Introduction

Luke Beckerdite

Survival of the Fittest: The Lloyd Family's Furniture Legacy

Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley

Furniture Fakes from the Chipstone Collection

Luke Beckerdite

Alan Miller

Pennsylvania Clouded Limestone: Its Quarrying, Processing, and Use in the Stone Cutting, Furniture, and Architectural Trades

R. Curt Chinnici

Manuscripts, Marks, and Material Culture: Sources for Understanding the Joiner's Trade in Seventeenth-Century America

Peter Follansbee

The Claypoole Family Joiners of Philadelphia: Their Legacy and the Context of Their Work

Andrew Brunk

The Politics of the Caned Chair

Glenn Adamson

The Quiet Canon: Tradition and Exclusion in American Furniture Scholarship

Jonathan Prown

Katherine Hemple Prown

An Early Cupboard Fragment from the Harvard College Joinery Tradition

Robert F. Trent

Michael Podmaniczky

Book Reviews

The Furniture of Sam Maloof, Jeremy Adamson; Made In Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett, Ursula Ilse-Neumann, et al.; review

Glenn Adamson

Encyclopedia of Furniture Materials, Trades and Techniques, Clive Edwards; One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Witold Rybczynski; review

Gerald W.R. Ward

Willard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800--1900, Paul J. Foley; review

David Wood

Robert C. Cheney

An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum, Wendy A. Cooper; review

Kenneth L. Ames

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography

Gerald W. R. Ward

Index