Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam by Todd Merrill & Julie V. Iovine drawing books [Oakland]: University of California Press

[Oakland]: University of California Press

Wallace invests his history with a clear sense of the pleasure and excitement of key collecting (or cagophily)—after reading his account

he entered the rarefied society of upper-class French families—many of them Jewish—who collected the new art

The book is divided into three parts

ranging from such buildings as the Baker House in Cambridge

Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam by Todd Merrill & Julie V. Iovine drawing books [Oakland]: University of California PressModern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam Edited by Todd Merrill & Julie V. Iovine Texts by Jeffrey Head, Julie V. Iovine, Erin Johnson, Roberta Maneker, Todd Merrill & Peter Wolf 4to. pp. 272. profusely illustrated in colour & b w. index. hardcover. dw. (near fine head & foot of spine bumped, with a short tear to dw. & nick to binding). New York: Rizzoli, [2008]. ISBN 10: 0847830535 ISBN 13: 9780847830534