The Palladian style in Rhode Island furniture, eighteenth-century Newport cabinet shops and the furniture-making trades, the influence of Windsor chairmaking in early Federal Rhode Island, Rhode Island influence in the work of two North Carolina cabinetmakers, the accounts of Job Townsend, Jr., Providence provenances and pitch-pediments, serpentine furniture of colonial Newport, plus the usual book reviews, and bibliography of recent writing.
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The Palladian Style in Rhode Island Furniture: Fly Tea Tables - Patricia E. Kane
Eighteenth-Century Cabinet Shops and the Furniture-Making Trades in Newport, Rhode Island - Mack Headley
Politics, Enterprise, and Design: The Nature and Influence of Windsor Chairmaking in Early Federal Rhode Island - Nancy Goyne Evans
Rhode Island Influence in the Work of Two North Carolina Cabinetmakers - John Bivins
The Accounts of Job Townsend, Jr. - Martha H. Willoughby
A Different Rhode Island Block and Shell Story: Providence Provenances and Pitch-Pediments - Wendy A. Cooper and Tara L. Gleason
New Insights on Early Rhode Island Furniture - Robert F. Trent
America's Contribution to Craftsmanship: The Exaltation and Interpretation of Newport Furniture - Gerald W. R. Ward
The Serpentine Furniture of Colonial Newport - Philip Zea
BOOK REVIEWSUseful Improvements, Innumerable Temptations: Pursuing Refinement in Rural New England, 1750-1850, Philip Zea - Margaretta M. Lovell
The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies, John Kassay - Jean M. Burks
Grand Rapids Furniture: The Story of America's Furniture City, Christian G. Carron, with contributions by Kenneth L. Ames, Jeffrey D. Kleiman, and Joel Lefever - Barry R. Harwood
There's a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home, Myrna Kaye - Philip D. Zimmerman
The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, Galen Cranz - Philip D. Zimmerman
Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, edited by Anna Tobin D'Ambrosio - Heidi Nasstrom
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