This volume is published in conjunction with a 1991 exhibition of the same name. It focuses on the American incarnation of large cupboards called kasten, examples of a furniture form recognized since
Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779?1819) was a leading figure in the deve
"Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), known during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," to this day remains America's best-known cabinetmaker. Establishing his reputation as a purveyor of luxury by designin
