Explores the Lloyd family's furniture legacy, fakes from the Chipstone collection, Pennsylvania clouded limestone, joiner's trade in 17th-century America, the Claypoole family joiners of Phiadelphia, the politics of the caned chair, tradition and exclusion in American furniture scholarship, and 17th-century cupboards from Cambridge, MA.

Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present.