Classic American Furniture

Classic American Furniture
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780809495429

Provides instruction on building fine American furniture, including Windsor chairs, a Queen Anne secretary, a Pembroke table, and a four-poster bed.

Classic American Furniture

Classic American Furniture
Author: Christopher Schwarz
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1440337438

Beautiful woodowrking furniture projects you'll be proud to build! If you enjoy the satisfaction of making beautiful furniture, you'll be pleased with the projects in this book. Classic American Furniture offers 20 attractive pieces--all custom designed by Christopher Schwarz and the editors of Woodworking Magazine. Every project has been thoroughly planned so it not only looks good, but it's simple to build. You'll also find: • Simple hand-tool techniques you can use to create a hand-crafted look. • Skill-building advice that will make you a better woodworker overall. • Special finishing techniques. Follow the advice in this book and you'll have the skills and confidence to create beautiful furniture every time.

Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture

Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture
Author: Burl Neff Osburn
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486230573

Construct 29 classic pieces from 150 detailed, measured drawings and photographs. Styles range from early American primitive to relatively sophisticated late 18th- and early 19th-century trends. Chosen pieces represent the work of such masters as Duncan Phyfe, William Savery, John Elliot, Hepplewhite, Goddard, and Sheraton. 32 photos.

Carving 18th Century American Furniture Elements

Carving 18th Century American Furniture Elements
Author: Tony Kubalak
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781933502328

Presenting 10 projects -- from shaping the surface through layout to rough carving and detailed carving -- this guide explains the process of carving authentic motifs found on the most treasured pieces of 18th-century American furniture. Written with a two-pronged approach, the book first emphasises that these are learned skills and offers guidance while, secondly, providing all the complex details that serious carvers need to reproduce each element with confidence. Selected for their importance and popularity on museum-quality pieces, projects include the cabriole leg, Philadelphia-style ball and claw foot, carved foliage on knee, Philadelphia rosette, and Newport flame finial, among others.

Making Furniture Masterpieces

Making Furniture Masterpieces
Author: Franklin H. Gottshall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1997-02-11
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486293386

Step-by-step instructions, illustrations for constructing handsome, useful pieces, among them a Sheraton desk, Chippendale chair, Spanish desk, Queen Anne table, and a William and Mary dressing mirror.

Fine Points of Furniture

Fine Points of Furniture
Author: Albert Sack
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Rev. ed. of: The new fine points of furniture.1993.

Making Classic Chairs

Making Classic Chairs
Author: Ron Clarkson
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1997
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781565230811

Making Classic Chairs is a title by Fox Chapel Publishing

American Furniture and Decoration Colonial and Federal

American Furniture and Decoration Colonial and Federal
Author: Edward Stratton Holloway
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-11-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1447496868

American Furniture & Decoration Colonial & Federal is Edward Stratton Holloway's illustrated manual on Colonial and Federal furniture and decoration, it was first published in 1928. Holloway was born in Ashland, Greene County, New York in 1859. He attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts between 18881 and 1905 and then went on to work as art director for the publisher J. B. Lippincott Co. for 46 years where he wrote a number of books on interior design and antique furniture.