American Furniture 2002

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 and 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 and Katherine Hemple Prown

An Early Cupboard Fragment from the Harvard College
Joinery Tradition
Robert F. Trent and 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 by 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 by Gerald W.R. Ward

Willard’s Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 1800–1900, Paul J. Foley; review by David Wood and Robert C. Cheney

An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum, Wendy A. Cooper; review by Kenneth L. Ames

Recent Writing on American Furniture: A Bibliography
Gerald W. R. Ward