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.