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2018
Volume LIV - 2018

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Nicholas Goodison Introduction: Chippendale and the Furniture History Society
Megan Aldrich The Shakespeare of English Furniture: Examining the Rich Mythology Surrounding Thomas Chippendale
Femke Speelberg Dissecting the Director: New Insights about its Production, and Chippendale as Draughtsman
Ulrike McGregor Thomas Chippendale, Ingenious Business Leader and Promoter of the Cabinet-Maker's Craft in Eighteenth-Century London: New Insights from the Burney Collection of Newspapers
David Adshead Miniature Architecture in Fine Wood: Chippendale and the Discipline of Classical Architecture
Sarah Medlam 'French Chairs' and Other Fashions: Chippendale's Debts to Paris
Lucy Wood Six Designs for 'Sideboard Tables' in Chippendale's Director
Annabel Westman Who was Thomas Chippendale's Laceman?
Christopher Rowell A 'Lost' Picture Frame by Thomas Chippendale and Lady Winn's Blue Dressing Room at Nostell Priory
Kerry Bristol Recovering a 'Lost' Account: Thomas Chippendale at No. 11 St James's Square, London
Megan Wheeler Death in St. Martin's Lane: New Light on Thomas Chippendale's Workshop and its Personnel in December 1772
Stephen Jackson A Chippendale Commission in Scotland: Blair Drummond, 1776
Adam Bowett Furniture for the Circular Dressing Room in Harewood House
Ann Sumner The Chippendale Firm at Harewood: Early Visitors' Experiences
Brock Jobe Chippendale's Influence in America: A New England Case Study
Rufus Bird A 'Chippendale' Mirror in the Nineteenth Century
Alyce Perry Englund Lionizing Chippendale's Legacy: Reinventing the Director in Modern America
Elizabeth Jacklin 'Chippendale in the Drawing Room': Beatrix Potter and Furniture
Kate Hay Chippendale, the Movie: The Rediscovery of 1920s 'Biopics' of Chippendale and Sheraton
Lisa White Thomas Chippendale: 2018 Update
2017
Volume LIII - 2017

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James Ayres A Late Medieval Chair of Estate
Sarah Medlam & Annabel Westman 'The Beauty of Holiness': Armorial Turkey-Work Cushions for use in Religious Settings in the Commonwealth and Restoration
Adam Bowett & Laurie Lindey Looking for Gerrit Jensen
Dudley Dodd The 1742 Inventory of Stourhead: Contemplating a Transient House
Tom Boggis 'So High and So Soft that Majesty will Scarcely Be Seen in It': Sir John Griffin Griffin's State Bed at Audley End
Polly Putnam 'The Tasteful Genius of Princess Elizabeth': The Furnishing of Queen Charlotte's Cottage in Kew in 1805
Mathieu Caron 'LB': The Furniture Legacy of Louise Bathilde d'Orléans, Duchesse de Bourbon (1750 - 1822)
Dierdre Le Faye 'The Head of a Flourishing Bank': The Bankruptcy Inventories of Austen, Maunde & Tilson, 1816
Christopher Rowell & Wolf Burchard The British Embassy at Palais Starhemberg: Furniture from the Congress of Vienna at Mount Stewart
Matthew Hirst The Realisation of a Regency Palace: The 6th Duke of Bedford and the Redecoration of Woburn Abbey
Joseph Sharples 'My Dear Father's House...' The Liverpool Home of Thomas Hazelhurst, Miniature Painter
2016
Volume LII - 2016

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Olivia Fryman Coffer-Makers to the Late Stuart Court, 1660 - 1714
Laurie Lindey Thomas Warden (c. 1660 - 1701) and Cane Chair-Makers in the City of London
Christiane Ernek-Van der Goes 'En Bordure De Glace Marquetrie' - Verre Églomisé Mirror Frames from the Royal Palace of Dresden
Jonathan Harris Handled with Care
Lisa White Rum Puncheons, a Chariot, and two Bedsteads: Furniture for Barbados Newlyweds, 1770
Jerzy J. Kierkuć-Bieliński Beyond the 'True Taste': Robert Adam, Sefferin Nelson, and Chinoiserie at Kenwood
Sharon Goodman Modesty Prevails: Mayhew & Ince's Commission for Sir Thomas Edwardes at 17 Edwards Street, Marylebone
Eric Detoisien Jean Nicolas Cheneaux: A Production Usurped by Furniture History
Charles Sebag-Montefiore A Regency Collection: Luke Foreman (1757 - 1814) and his wife Mary (1764? - 1834)
Christopher Rowell and Wolf Burchard François Benois, Martin-Eloi Lignereux and Lord Whitworth: leasing, furnishing and dismantling the British Embassy in Paris during the Peace of Amiens, 1802 - 03
Laura Houliston 'The Value of Good Design': Alister Maynard's furniture at Eltham Palace
2015
Volume LI - 2015

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Nicholas Goodison Simon Swynfen Jervis: an appreciation
Bibliography of Simon Swynfen Jervis
Christopher Rowell Florentine Cassoni at Blickling, Knole and Cliveden
Dora Thornton Volpone's Chest? The Take of a Trunk
Ian Gow The Kellie Millefiori Tapestry Fragment
Rufus Bird Very Choice Florentine Work of the Finest Kind? A Turtle-Shell Casket with a Pietre Dure Floor from Carlton House
Adam Bowett & Ian Fraser An Impostor Unmasked: The 'Duke of Leeds' Suite at Temple Newsam House
Carlton Hobbs & David Oakey Two Fredericks and a Frame: A Rediscovered Giltwood Masterpiece by Paul Petit
Martin Drury Recreating an Eighteenth-Century Side Table for Uppark
Reinier Barsen The Parisian Furniture Purchases of Count Cobenzl, 1754-1765
Dudley Dodd A Cherishable Wreck: An Early Neo-Classical Table at Stourhead Attributed to John Linnell
Leela Meinertas The Portland Bill and the Mirrors
Hugh Roberts 'No Grandeur was Wanting': The Funeral of the 3rd Earl of Darnley
James Lomax An Antiquarian Organ Screen from Harewood
Tim Knox The Elusive Mr Morel: A Portrait of a Regency Arbiter of Taste
James Yorke Grecian Chairs at St Pancras New Church
Martin Levy A Recently Identified Thomas Hope Chandelier in New Orleans
David Adshead Rattee and Kett's Furniture Designs for Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Lisa White Mrs Proudie and the Bed-Post: Anthony Trollope's Insights into Victorian Furniture
Sarah Medlam Family Values: Sir Hubert Herkomer's Furniture for Lululand
Georg Himmelheber Gustav Himmelheber as a Student at the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts
Lucy Wood Tied up in Knots: Three Centuries of the Ribbon-Back Chair
2015
Volume L - 2014
Nicholas Goodison The Furniture History Society: Our Fiftieth Anniversary
Laurie Lindey A Restoration London Cabinet and Looking Glass-Maker: Edward Traherne
Nicola Gentle An Astonishing Survival: The Bed in the Red Room at Cotehele, Cornwall
Philip Solomons & James Broughton Cocuswood and Kingwood Cabinets in the Early Restoration Period
Adriana Turpin The Career of Cornelius Gole: an Unrecognised Cabinet-Maker in the Late Seventh-Century England
Annabel Westman William Elliot, 'the Laceman', 164?-1728
Adam Bowett A Group of Metal Marquetry Tables attributed to Gerrit Jensen
Olivia Fryman Rich Pickings: The Royal Bed as a Perquisite, 1660-1760 J
John M. Cross The Joiners of the Port Royal, Jamaica
Rufus Bird The Furniture and Furnishing of St James's Palace, London, 1714-1715
Matthew Hirst Conservation Discoveries: New Insights into Lady Burlington's 'Owl' Tables for her Garden Room at Chiswick
Helen Jacobsen François Mondon: An Ébéniste at Work in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine
Lucy Wood George Haupt (1714-1784) and his Compatriots in London
Laura Houliston A New Light on the Display of Furniture at Kenwood
Emma Slocombe Ancient Furnishing: The Display and Alteration of Upholstered Seat Furniture and Textiles Associated with the Brown Gallery, Knole, in the Nineteenth Century
Ulrich Leben French Period Style for a Global Market: Maison Leys under the direction of Georges Hoentschel, 1892-1915
Barley Roscoe Stoneywell and the Gimsons: Furniture and Family History
2013
'Precise and Exact in the Minutest Things of Taste and Decoration' : The Earl of Kerry's Patronage of Ince & Mayhew

'Precise and Exact in the Minutest Things of Taste and Decoration' : The Earl of Kerry's Patronage of Ince & Mayhew

Hugh Roberts Hugh Roberts was Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art from 1996 to 2010 and is now Surveyor Emeritus. He was a Director of Christie's from 1976 and Head of Decorative Arts Departments from 1984. He has written widely on English and Continental furniture; in 2001 he published For the King's Pleasure: The Furnishings and Decoration of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle, and in 2012 The Queen's Diamonds. For some years he has been working (with Charles Cator) on the partnership of Ince and Mayhew and in the process has published individual studies of this firm's work for the 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1981), 12th Earl of Derby (1985), Westminster Fire Office (1993), 4th Duke of Marlborough (1994) and 1st Earl of Caledon (2009).
2012
Volume LXVII - 2012

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Peter N. Lindfield-Ott Furnishing a Gothic Fantasy 1803-1825: Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Paul Rem Queen Anne Pavlovna's Russian Secretaire: An Imperial Gift at Het Loo Palace
Wolf Burchard Savonnerie Reviewed: Charles le Brun and the Grand Tapis de Pied d'Ouvrage a la Turque, woven for the Grande Galerie at the Louvre
Lucy Wood A Royal Relic: The State Bedroom Suite at Warwick Castle
Christopher Huchet de Quénetain The Origin of a Parisian Dynasty of Craftsmen and Artists: Francois Garner (d.1760), Maitre Menusier-Ebeniste, Father of Pierre Garnier (1726/27-1806), Maitre Menusier-Ebeniste, Grandfather of Etienne-Barthelemy Garnier
Charlotte Rostek New Light on Thomas Chippendale's Seat Furniture and "Best" Bed at Dumfries House, Ayrshire
Barbara Lasic "Dignity and Graciousness": Mewes and Davis and the Creation of "Tous les Louis" Period Rooms
Christina M. Anderson Further Evidence of the Comprehensive Nature of the Firm of Holland and Sons
2011
Volume LXVII - 2011

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James Rothwell & Annabel Westman The Ghost of a Royal Visit – the Furnishing of the State Apartment at Lyme Park in the Mid-1670s
Christopher Rowell A Louis XIV Polychrome Boulle Marquetry Bureau by the ‘Maitre du Bureau de L’Electeur’ at Saltram
Dudley Dodd & Lucy Wood The ‘Weeping Women’ Commode and Other Orphaned Furniture at Stourhead by the Chippendales, Senior and Junior
Tatyana Semenova Christian Meÿer, a Marquetry Master from Saint Petersburg
Frédéric Hitzel Charles Séchan (1803-1874: a French Decorator in the Service of Sultan Abdülmdjid
2010
Volume LXVI - 2010

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Alvar González-Palacios Concerning Furniture: Roman Documents and Inventories. Part I, c.1600-1720
Catherine L. Futter & John Twilley Chinoiserie in Northern Italy – Japanned Decoration in a Rare Eighteenth-century Piedmontese Gabinetto in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kate Hay Mosaic Marble Tables by J. Darmanin & Sons of Malta
Caroline Dakers Furniture and Interior Decoration for James and Alfred Morrison
Marlene Ott Light and Flexible – the Austrian Architect Josef Frank and the Vienna Furnishing Firm ‘Haus & Garten’
Gülname Turan Turkish Furniture Design in the 1930s: Responses to Art Deco in the Early Republican Period