The book will serve as the essential reference for collectors of Mid Century modern furniture, curators of museum collections and house museums with 20^th century furniture, and for the hundreds of dealers, gallery owners, auctioneers, and appraisers who specialize in 20^th and 21^st century design.

Foreword by Christopher Long

Preface

Acknowledgements

I. The American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1900-1916

1. Charles Rohlfs

2. Charles and Henry Greene

3. Gustav Stickley

4. Frank Lloyd Wright

II. Modernism: A Tough Sell in America: 1920-1940

5. Paul Frankl

6. Gilbert Rohde

7. Kem Weber

8. Donald Deskey

III. Mid-Century Modern: 1940s through the 1970s

9. George Nelson

10. Charles and Ray Eames

11. Florence Knoll

12. Edward J Wormley

13. Russel Wright

14. Paul Evans

IV. Modernism, Postmodernism, and into the 21^st Century: Knoll International and Herman Miller

15. Knoll Designers after Florence Knoll: 1965 to the Present

16. Herman Miller Designers post George Nelson: 1972 to the Present

V. Studio Furniture

17. George Nakashima

18. Sam Maloof

19. Wendell Castle

20. Garry Knox Bennett

21. Tommy Simpson

22. John Cederquist

Annotated Bibliography

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