Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite
Preface
Allen M. Taylor
Introduction
Luke Beckerdite
Frog Backs and Turkey Legs: The Nomenclature of Vernacular Seating Furniture, 1740–1850
Nancy Goyne Evans
Designs for Philadelphia Carvers
Richard H. Randall, Jr.
Is It Phyfe?
Deborah Dependahl Waters
Seventeenth-Century Joinery from Braintree, Massachusetts: The Savell Shop Tradition
Peter Follansbee and John D. Alexander
The Rococo, the Grotto, and the Philadelphia High Chest
Jonathan Prown and Richard Miller
Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810–1840
Maurie D. McInnis and Robert A. Leath
Boston and New York leather Chairs: A Reappraisal
Roger Gonzales and Daniel Putnam Brown, Jr.
Admitted into the Mysteries: The Benjamin Bucktrout Masonic Master's Chair
F. Cary Howlett
Immigrant Carvers and the Development of the Rococo Syle
Luke Beckerdite
The Very Pink of the Mode: Boston Georgian Chairs, Their Export, and Their Influence
Leigh Keno, Joan Barzilay Freund, and Alan Miller
Book Reviews
American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640–1940
Review By Bert Denker
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker
Review by Ted Landsmark
Material Culture of the American Freemasons
Review by William D. Moore
The Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700–1840
Review by Francis J. Puig
"The Best the Country Affords" Vermont Furniture, 1765–1850 and Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist
Review by Edwin A. Churchill
Vermont Cabinetmakers and Chairmakers Before 1855: A Checklist
Review by Edwin A. Churchill