Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets Its Maker was the first solo exhibition and monograph fully documenting the work of the USA's leading conceptual furniture maker. The research addressed key issues in the crafts relevant to Peteran's work, such as the use of the found object, the role of narrative in furniture and the relationship between serial and one-off production. The originality of the project lay in the fact that nothing substantive had been written on Peteran, and the form and content of both book and exhibition – the former taking an unorthodox approach to include commentary from art critics and the furniture maker's psychoanalyst in foldout pages, emphasising the dissonant stance towards functionality which characterises the furniture. The rigour of the research was grounded in discussions with the maker over seven years and extensive analysis of individual works carried out with broad reference to art historical precedent. Adamson was awarded a competitive Windgate Foundation grant to curate the exhibition, which has toured the USA and Canada to major art school galleries such as Cranbrook as well as leading decorative art museums such as Winterthur, offering wide dissemination of the research in terms of audiences and media coverage.