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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
2009
Volume XLV - 2009

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Jack Hinton, Ken Sutherland & Peggy Olley Kimball, Figdor and the Medici: Notes on the Collection and Display of Italian Renaissance Furniture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to 1930, including a Technical Study of a Fifteenth-Century painted Chest
Nicola Gentle Lord Rochester’s Bed
Katrin Schöne Console Tables with Figurative Decoration from the Neues Palais in Potsdam
Caddy Wilmot-Sitwell The Inventory of 19 Arlington Street, 12 May 1768
Hugh Roberts ‘Unequall’d Elegance’: Mayhew and Ince’s Furniture for James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon
Simon Swynfen Jervis John Stafford of Bath and his Interior Decoration
Deborah Clarke Charles X’s Residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse 1830-32: An Inventory of Furniture
Christina Baird Captain Thomson’s Letter: A Discussion on ‘China Trade’ Furniture with Particular Reference to the Port of Singapore
Matthew Denney ‘Oakbeams’, an Important Twentieth-century Furniture Commission
Jonathan Harris The Mattwa or Bridal Chest of North Jordan and Southern Syria, c. 1900-1960
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2008
Volume XLIV - 2008

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Helen Dorey A Catalogue of the Furniture in Sir John Soane’s Museum
Simon Swynfen Jervis Foreword
Frances Collard Soane and Furniture
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2007
Volume XLIII - 2007

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Geoffrey de Bellaigue Writings on Furniture
Daniel Alcouffe Laurent Lelibon: The Pierre Gole of Faubourg Saint-Antoine
Christian Baulez François Rémond and Chimneypieces for Carlton House, 1787-1790
Jean-Pierre Samoyault The Jacob-Lignereux Alliance (14 March 1798)
Sylvain Cordier The Dispersal of Furniture by Bellangé from the Maëlrondt Collection
Hugh Roberts Thrones Revisited
Lucy Wood A Bonheur-du-Jour at Stourhead: The Work of John Linnell and Christopher Fuhrlohg
Alvar González-Palacios Valadier Father and Son – Some Further Notes and Discoveries
Adam Bowett The Engravings of Daniel Morot
Reinier Baarsen Sculptor and Chairmaker? Throne Chairs from the Workshop of Jan Baptist Xavery
Yannick Chastang Louis Tessier’s Livre de Principes de Fleurs and the Eighteenth-century Marqueteur
Ulrich Leben An Armchair and Folding Screen for the Comte d’Artois at Bagatelle
Sarah Medlam Callet’s Portrait of Louis XVI: A Picture Frame as Diplomatic Tool
Nicholas Goodison Hercules Musarum
Wolfram Koeppe A Tea Chest by Abraham Roentgen at Frogmore House
Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel Le Guéridon d’Hartwell
John Harris Woodcote Park: Distinguishing Between Two Lords
John Hardy The English Taste for Boulle
Peter Hughes The Grand Trianon Commodes by André-Charles Boulle and their Influence
Alexandre Pradère Baron van Hoorn: An Amateur of Boulle, Antiquity, and the Middle Ages under the Empire
Charles Cator French Furniture at Wanstead
Gillian Wilson A Clock, a Coffer, and their Covers
Simon Swynfen Jervis Pietre Dure Caskets in England
Christopher Rowell French Furniture at Uppark: Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh and his Friends in Post-Revolutionary Paris
Martin Levy Ralph Bernal and John Coleman Isaac: Some Correspondence
Bertrand Rondot Moïse de Camondo and the Price of Association
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2006
Volume XLII - 2006

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Sally Rush French Fashion in Sixteenth-century Scotland: The 1539 Inventory of James V’s Wardrobe
Christopher Rowell A Set of Early Seventeenth-century Crimson Velvet Seat Furniture at Knole: New Light on the ‘Knole Sofa’
Florian Knothe André-Charles Boulle’s Early Production of Bureaux Plats: A Newly Attributed Writing Desk in the Huntington Collection
Simon Swynfen Jervis Furniture in Eighteenth-century Country House Guides
David St Leger Kelly ‘French Polish’ in the Nineteenth Century
Jonathan Marsden & Richard Thompson A New Zealand Masterpiece: A Marquetry Secretaire by Anton Seuffert
Stuart Evans Furniture for Small Houses
John Cornforth (1937-2004) A Memoir and Bibliography
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2005
Volume XLI - 2005

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Maria Hayward Symbols of Majesty: Cloths of Estate at the Court of Henry VIII
John Stabler ‘We Always Stamped All We Made, Not Being Asham’d of Our Work’
Lucy Wood William Hallett’s Lantern Stand for Chevening
Geoffrey Castle The France Family of Upholsterers and Cabinet-Makers
Marian Kirkbride From Jersey to Québec: the House and Furniture of Mary Ann Le Marquand
Megan Aldrich & Barry Shipman Crace, Pugin, and the Furnishing of John Naylor’s Leighton Hall
Judith Goodison Thomas Chippendale the Younger at Stourhead
Laura Microulis Gillow and Company’s Furniture for a Liverpool Maecenas: John Grant Morris of Allerton Priory
Christina M. Anderson W. Bryson and the Firm of Holland and Sons
Simon Swynfen Jervis Charles Davis, the 15th Duke of Norfolk, and the Formation of the Collection of Furniture at Arundel Castle
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