This volume features articles on late Baroque Boston seating furniture, Germanic influence on furniture early nineteenth-century design in Philadelphia, Randolph chairs, the Christian M. Nestell drawing book, the inlaid cherry furniture of Nathan Lombard, the Waldo family joined great chair, "Tinkham" chairs, as well as book reviews and bibliography of new books in the field. Table of Contents The Making and Marketing of Boston Seating Furniture in the Late Baroque Style - Joan Barzilay Freund and Leigh Keno Germanic Craftsmen and Furniture Design in Philadelphia, 1820-1850 - Charles L. Venable Labeled Randolph Chairs Rediscovered - Philip D. Zimmerman The Christian M. Nestell Drawing Book: A Focus on the Ornamental Painter and His Craft in Early Nineteenth-Century America - Nancy Goyne Evans Sophistication in Central Massachusetts: The Inlaid Cherry Furniture of Nathan Lombard - Brock Jobe and Clark Pearce A Seventeenth-Century Carpenter's Conceit: The Waldo Family Joined Great Chair - Peter Follansbee Notes about New Tinkham”Chairs - Karen Goldstein and Robert F. Trent BOOK REVIEWSThe Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood - Milo M. Naeve HonoréLannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ébéniste in Federal New York, Peter M. Kenny, Frances F. Bretter, and Ulrich Leben - Wendy A. Cooper New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, Nancy Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, with Wendy A. Cooper and Michael S. Podmaniczky - Wallace B. Gusler The Shaker World: Art, Life, Belief, John T. Kirk - Scott T. Swank Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840, Geoffrey Beard - Jeffrey H. Munger Southern Furniture, 1680-1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection, Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown - Robert A. Leath “American Furniture has energized the field, inspiring scholars to publish their research and insights. It provides not only for the scholarly community but for all interested parties, the latest thinking on the subjects.” (Peter M. Kenny, Associate Curator and Administrator of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) 8 1/2 x 11 trim. 298 illus. (67 color). 6 figs. End-papers. Luke Beckerdite is a decorative arts consultant living in Williamsburg, Virginia. Used Book in Good Condition