This year’s issue dedicated to American furniture brings mid-century modernism into the fold with articles by Martin Filler on the furniture maker Kem Weber, and Gregory Cerio on three important designers—Samuel A. Marx, Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings, and William Haines.

Current and Coming: Mughal Manuscripts, Photography at Yale, Orientalism in New York City, Historic Deerfield, and Huntington Art Gallery

Report from Europe: Dutch primitives, Liverpool: European City of Culture, and London Fairs

Collectors' notes: An update on Robert Wellford's compo

Design notes: Modern classics for the landscape

Museum accessions: In the Shelburne tradition

Editorial by Wendell Garrett

Before You Go

Queries