Making Authentic Shaker Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics (Furniture Making) Mass market - 1992
by JOHN G. SHEA
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- Paperback
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Details
- Title Making Authentic Shaker Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics (Furniture Making)
- Author JOHN G. SHEA
- Binding Mass Market
- Edition New edition
- Condition Used - 4.1 PB extra nice +5%
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, New York
- Date May 1992
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1036335
- ISBN 9780486270036 / 0486270033
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 10.91 x 8.24 x 0.55 in (27.71 x 20.93 x 1.40 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Shaker furniture, Furniture - Drawings
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91040491
- Dewey Decimal Code 749
From the rear cover
This splendid book describes and illustrates in detail how the Shakers designed, built, and finished their furniture and household articles. With its detailed text as well as over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic pieces, it offers woodworkers and furniture enthusiasts a practical guide to the essentials of replicating a broad range of designs long admired for their sturdy practicality and their spare, elegant beauty.
The book first chronicles and describes the Shaker movement and the Shaker way of living, worshiping, and working. It then explores the Shaker approach to furniture design (from chests and chairs to boxes and baskets), construction (including all joinery techniques), and finishing (including recipes for finishes).
Three important sections of the book depict dozens of classic Shaker designs, complete with measured drawings. The designs include Shaker smallcraft such as a cutting board, scoop, candle sconce, peg-leg footstool and towel rack; more substantial utility designs such as a dough bin, cradle, dry sink, butcher block, and bonnet box; and furniture classics such as a Harvard trestle table, maple chair, lap desk, sewing chest, rocking chair, bed, settee and chest of drawers--each in its own distinctive way defining the simple, practical grace of Shaker design.
