American Furniture 2004

Editorial Statement
Luke Beckerdite

A Table’s Tale: Craft, Art, and Opportunity in
Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller

The Account Book of Benjamin Baker
Dennis Andrew Carr

High Craft along the Mohawk: Early Woodwork
from the Albany Area of New York
Robert F. Trent, Alan Miller, Glenn Adamson,
and Harry Mack Truax II

John Singleton Copley’s Furniture and the
Art of Invention
Jonathan Prown

Southern Sophistication on the Early Frontier:
The Inlaid Furniture of Washington County, Ohio,
1788–1825
Andrew Richmond

Opulence Abroad: Honoré Lannuier’s Gilded Furniture
in Trinidad de Cuba
Peter M. Kenny

Book Reviews

Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors,
Jennifer L. Howe, ed.; review by Kenneth L. Ames

Nature, Form, and Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima, Mira Nakashima; review by Thomas A. Denenberg

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