The Benefits
of Membership
Find out more about the benefits of membership including the annual journal, a regular newsletter, lectures, study weekends and overseas tours.
Membership| Morrison Heckscher | Lock and Copland: A Catalogue of the Engraved Ornament |
| Nancy Goyne Evans | A History and Background of English Windsor Furniture |
| Virginia Glenn | George Bullock, Richard Bridgens and James Watt's Regency Furnishing Schemes |
| David Learmont | The Trinity Hall Chairs, Aberdeen |
| William Rieder | A Gilt Gesso Set of Furniture Traditionally from Stowe |
| Geoffrey de Bellaigue | The Waterloo Elm |
| Peter Brears | The York Spinning Wheel Makers |
| Pat Kirkham | Recollections of Furniture Makers: Labour History, Oral History and Furniture Studies |
| Simon Redburn | John McLean and Son |
| Thomas Crispin | English Windsor Chairs: A Study of Known Makers and Regional Centres |
| Derrick Worsdale | Later Neo-Classical Florentine Furniture at Palazzo Pitti |
| Margaret Swain | The State Beds at Holyroodhouse |
| Penelope Eames | Furniture in England, France and the Netherlands from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century |
| Pauline Agius | English Chairmakers Listed in General and Trade Directories, 1790-1851 |
| Gabriel Olive | Furniture in a West Country Parish 1576-1769 |
| Anthony Wells-Cole | Oak Furniture in Dorset: Some Introductory Thoughts |
| Christopher Hutchinson | George Reynoldson, Upholsterer of York, fl. 1716-1764 |
| Christopher Gilbert | Wright and Elwick of Wakefield, 1748-1824: a Study of Provincial Patronage |
| Ivan Hall | Jeremiah and Joseph Hargrave of Hull; Architects, Carvers, Furniture Makers |
| Karin Walton | Eighteenth-century Cabinet-Making in Bristol |
| Robert Williams | A Cambridge Family of Furniture Makers and the Furnishing of the Master's Lodge Trinity College, Cambridge, 1795-1820 |
| Ivan Sparkes | A Checklist of Books and Articles in Periodicals on Rural Chairs, the Windsor Chair and Chairmaking |
| Nicholas Goodison | The Victoria and Albert Museum's Collection of Metal-Work Pattern Books |
| Geoffrey Beard | Babel's 'A New Book of Ornaments', 1752 |
| Christopher Gilbert | The Early Furniture Designs of Matthias Darly |
| Helena Hayward | Newly Discovered Designs by Thomas Johnson |
| Helena Hayward | Engraved Ornamental Designs after Francis Barlow |
| Dick Reid | Thomas Pether's 'Book of Ornaments', 1883 |
| Simon Redburn | The Furniture Designs of Thomas Malton, 1775—9 |
| Geoffrey Wills | Twelve New Designs of Frames by S. H., 1779 |
| Ivan Hall | The Engravings of Thomas Chippendale, Jnr, 1779 |
| Morrison Heckscher | Eighteenth-century Rustic Furniture Designs |
| Terry Friedman | Two Eighteenth-century Catalogues of Ornamental Pattern Books |
| Margaret Swain | Pictorial Chair Covers: Some engraved sources |
| Virginia Evans | Recollections of Robert W. Symonds |
| Colin Streeter & Margaret Barker | A Bibliography of Publications by Robert Wemyss Symonds |
| Francis Bamford | A Shetlander in St Martin's Lane, 1775 |
| Penelope Eames | An Iron Chest at Guildhall of about 1427 |
| James Ayres | A Carved Red Lacquer Table |
| Peter Thornton | Some Neo-Carolean Armchairs at Ham House |
| Benno M. Forman | "The Joyners' Company' in 1694 Christopher Gilbert The Subscribers to Chippendale's Director: A Preliminary Analysis Colin Streeter Marquetry Tables from Cobb's Workshop Nicholas Goodison An Offering to Diana Pat Kirkham The Partnership of William Ince and John Mayhew, 1759-1804 Morrison Heckscher Ince and Mayhew: Bibliographical Notes from New York Alison Kelly Furnishings from the Coade Factory in Lambeth Christopher Hutchinson The Leeds Cabinet and Chair-makers Book of Prices Edward Joy Early Nineteenth-century Invalid etc. Furniture Geoffrey Wills Thomas Willson Tom Ingram Baring Brothers: Some Furniture of a Merchant Banking House Pauline Agius Cabinet-makers Not in 'Heal', or Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- century Trade Cards of Furniture Makers in the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera John Gloag Identifying Terms and Names Simon Jervis The Pryor's bank, Fulham. Residence of Thomas Baylis Esquire F.S.A. An Illustration Of the preservation of Ancient Works by their application to Modern Purposes Simon Jervis 'Sussex' Chairs in 1820 Jill Seddon Furniture Designed by Frank Brangwyn |
| Francis Bamford | The Schaws of Edinburgh and a Bed at Blair Castle |
| Peter Thornton | Upholstered Evidence: or How the Members of the Furniture History Society came to assist in saving the remains of a Queen Anne Wing Chair |
| Robert Smith | Two Portuguese Antiphonal Lecterns dated 1668 and 1770 |
| Gervase Jackson-Stops | Pre-Adam Furniture Designs at Nostell Priory |
| Ivan Hall | Some Sources of Chippendale's Inspiration |
| Christopher Gilbert | Chippendale's Harewood Commission |
| Penelope Eames | Inventories as Sources of Evidence for Domestic Furnishings in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries |
| Karin Walton | The Worshipful Company of Upholders of the City of London |
| Francis Bamford | Two Scottish Wrights at Dumfries House |
| Hedvig Szabolsci | English Influence on Hungarian Furniture at the end of the Eighteenth Century |
| Simon Jervis | Ruskin and Furniture |
| Rosemarie Stratmann | Design and Mechanisms in the Furniture of Jean-Francois Oeben |
| Geoffrey de Bellaigue & Pat Kirkham | George IV and the Furnishing of Windsor Castle |
| Nicholas Goodison | The King's Vases |
| Frances Buckland | A Group of Bureaux Plats and the Royal Inventories |
| Gillian Watson | Boulle |
| Ivan Hall | French Influence at Burton Constable |
| Svend Eriksen | Some Letters from the Marquis de Marigny to his Cabinet-maker Pierre Gamier |
| Lindsay Boynton | The Hardwick Hall Inventory of 1601 |
| Peter Thornton | A Short Commentary on the Hardwick Inventory of 1601 |
| Penelope Eames | Documentary Evidence Concerning the Character and Use of Domestic Furnishings in England in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries |
| Peter Thornton | Two Problems |
| Pauline Agius | Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Furniture in Oxford |
| William Goodman | Some Elizabethan Woodworkers and their Tools |
| Benno Forman | Continental Furniture Craftsmen in London: 1511-1625 |
| Gervase Jackson-Stops | William III and French Furniture |
| Nicholas Goodison & John Hardy | Gillows at Tatton Park |
| Christopher Gilbert | John Planta of Fulneck, Yorkshire (fl. c. 1798-1824) |
| Simon Jervis | Holland and Sons, and the Furnishing of The Athenaeum |
| Edward Joy | The Overseas Trade in Furniture in the Nineteenth Century |
| Felicity Mallet | Miles and Edwards of London |
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