American Furniture 1994

Editorial Statement

Luke Beckerdite

Preface
Allen M. Taylor

Introduction
Luke Becerdite

Identifying and Understanding Repairs and Structural
Problems in Windsor Furniture

Nancy Goyne Evans

Architect-Designed Furniture in Eighteenth-Century
Virginia: The Work of William Buckland and
William Bernard Sears

Luke Beckerdite

Leon Marcotte: Cabinetmaker and Interior Decorator
Nina Gray

John Cogswell and Boston Bombé Furniture: Thirty-Five Years of Revolution in Politics and Design
Robert Mussey and Anne Rogers Haley

Flat Gates, Draw Bars, Twists, and Urns: New York’s
Distinctive, Early Baroque Oval Tables with Falling Leaves

Peter M. Kenny

Jean Berger’s Design Book: Huguenot Tradesmen and the Dissemination of French Baroque Style
Robert A. Leath

A Masonic Master’s Chair Revealed
Susan Buck

English Furniture Pattern Books in Eighteenth-Century
America

Morrison H. Heckscher

The Work of Clotworthy Stephenson, William Hodgson
and Henry Ingle in Richmond, Virginia, 1787–1806

Sumpter T. Priddy III and Martha C. Vick

Book Reviews

Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast, organized and edited by Brock Jobe; review by David L. Barquist

American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, David L. Barquist; review by John Hays

Clock Making in New England, 1725–1825: An Interpretation of the Old Sturbridge Village Collection, Philip Zea and Robert C. Cheney, edited by Caroline F. Sloat; review by Thomas S. Michie

New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees, Sheila Connor; review by Gerald W. R. Ward

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