'American Kasten'The Dutch Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey 1650 1800. By Peter M. Kenny, Frances G. Safford, and Gilbert T. Vincent This volume is published in conjunction with a 1991 exhibition of the same name. It focuses on the American incarnation of large cupboards called kasten, examples of a furniture form recognized since the beginning of the twentieth century as quintessentially Dutch in inspiration. Beginning in 1909, The Metropolitan Museum of