Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware, Volume 3 (Vol.3) [Paperback]

Ejner Handberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1977 | Series: Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware (Book 3)

Clocks, sewing tables, footstools, mirrors, desks, shelves, racks, and more.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Carefully detailed, time-tested guides to building Shaker furniture and woodenware

"Ejner Handberg had an eye for some of the best of Shaker design. Both beginning and longtime admirers of Shaker work will find pleasure and instruction in these simple, straightforward pages." -June Sprigg, prolific author of Shaker subjects and formerly Curator of Collections, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts

In harmony with the Shaker spirit, the three volumes of Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware emphasize simplicity, precision and utility. With over 100,000 copies in print and nearly twenty years of service to cabinetmakers and antiques collectors worldwide, these highly respected books have established themselves as an authoritative source. No furniture makers, antique lovers, libraries or museums should be without them.

Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, Vols. 1, 2, 3

The three volumes provide accurate scale drawings of such sought-after Shaker items as:

Bed

Blanket Chest

Candlestand Chest of Drawers

Dining Table

Drop-leaf Tables High Cupboard Chests

Lantern

Mt. Lebanon Chairs Oval Boxes

Oval top table

Revolving stool Round pedestal table

School desk

Settee Sewing table

Shaker stove

Step stool Storage bench

Tall Case Clock

Towel racks Trestle tables

Wall clock

Wall cupboard Knobs, drawer pulls, and Wall-pegs

Volumes 2 and 3 provide photographs of many Shaker pieces.

Ejner Handberg (1902-1985) was born in Denmark, emigrated to America, and for many years was a cabinetmaker in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he helped design and build Norman Rockwell's studio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Berkshire House Publishers; 2 edition (October 15, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936399198
• ISBN-13: 978-0936399195
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
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