The maker's hand: American studio furniture, 1940-1990

Director's foreword

Foreword by The Furniture Society

Acknowledgments

Introduction: defining the field

Woodworkers: the beginnings of the studio furniture movement

The challenge of freewheeling artist-craftsmen: tradition and innovation in the 1960s

Technofetishism: technical virtuosity and exotic woods in the 1970s

The professionalization of studio furniture: the 1980s

Afterword

Makers' biographies

Select schools and programs in furniture making and woodworking

Select galleries

Chronology of select exhibitions.