The Spring 2019 edition (No.70) of the RFS Newsletter is now available to members. It features reports of recent Society events and a number of illustrated articles on regional furniture:
- Letter from America – Daniel Ackermann
- An unrecorded medieval chest at St Mary’s church, Horsham – Chris Pickvance
- Medieval chests in Kent – Chris Pickvance
- The Landkey Parish Table purchased by the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon – Alison Mills
- Joseph Newton’s Windsor chair advertisements, 1725 and 1729 – Julian Parker
- Windsor chairs at Newstead Abbey – Julian Parker
- John Bray of Bourne, Lincolnshire, Windsor chair-maker – William Sergeant and Julian Parker
- The myth of the patinated Windsor chair – Bob Parrott
- A caned library chair by John Syers at Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire – Brian Crossley
- A little wider please: a barber-surgeon’s chair – Jeremy Bate
- Fashionable furniture in Haverfordwest: a card table by William Owen – Sarah Medlam
- Unlocking the Geffrye – Emma Hardy
Additional reports:
- Lawrence Neal, chair-maker: when is a chair more than a chair?
- Sitting Firm
- The rush-seated chair: a celebration of past, present and future
- V&A Dundee: The Scottish Design Galleries
The Newsletter is published twice a year, and is one of the benefits of RFS membership. A full list of articles in previous editions can be found here: Newsletter research articles