Contents 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