Now in its third edition, Identifying American Furniture is a concise, indispensable resource for curators, collectors, and connoisseurs alike, as well as for students of history and the decorative arts. Containing over 200 photographs representing 36 different furniture styles and an extensive bibliography, Naeve's book is the classic guide for those wishing to make quick identification of specific pieces or to do further research. Each style is related to international stylistic movements, innovative craftsmen, influential publications, and the technological improvements that shaped them. The Chicago Tribune rightly calls Naeve's guide "a book that belongs in every furniture-lover's library." Trade bookstores order from W.W. Norton, NY

A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms:
Colonial to Contemporary
Third Edition, Revised and Expanded

Elegantly fashioned and uniquely perceptive, this guidebook, now in its third edition, authoritatively surveys four centuries of American domestic furniture styles.

Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When was it popular?" Curators, collectors, appraisers, connoisseurs of furniture, and students of history, architecture, and the arts — as well as those just learning the fascination of stylistic trends in American furniture—will find this succinct handbook essential.

Styles are arranged chronologically from 1607 to the present and represent all thirty-five major furniture styles from Arts and Crafts to Windsor. Milo M. Naeve's vivid commentary draws attention to the book's 196 photographs, pinpointing distinctions among the styles. Naeve also offers an excellent guide for further reading.