an era revisited Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam is the perfect coffee table book for the intellectual.  Filled with beautiful images and written by Todd Merrill, a leading expert in furniture design (and who also boasts Lenny Kravitz as one of his loyal clients), and Julie V. Iovine, this book analyses those designers and craftsmen who inspired a new era in American furniture - the glamorous high-style period (1940 to 1999).