Popular Woodworking's Arts & Crafts Furniture: 25 Projects For Every Room In Your Home (Paperback)

by Popular Woodworking Editors (Author)
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Product Description
Simple and beautiful, Arts & Crafts furniture designs offer an excellent learning medium for furniture building. The Arts & Crafts style allows the craftsman to build a quality piece of furniture in a reasonable amount of time while providing a very successful and satisfying experience.

This book offers a collection of twenty-five Arts & Crafts furniture projects for every room in your home. Some of the projects are accurate reproductions of the original furniture pieces, while others are loving adaptations of the style. In addition to the projects in the book, we've included a Bonus CD-ROM with ten furniture projects and ten technique articles to provide even more information on construction and finishing.

This book represents a collection of projects that the Popular Woodworking staff considers to be some of most visually appealing pieces of furniture ever created.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books (January 18, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558708464
• ISBN-13: 978-1558708464
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #150,448 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile projects and crystal-clear direction, August 12, 2008

By	New England Yankee (Northern New England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This book has 3 sections: a brief, but good introduction to the major Arts & Crafts furniture makers, with comments on their relative qualities and places in the movement; construction techniques; and projects. All are well illustrated and all pictures are in color (except, obviously, repros of original black and white photos). Alternative techniques are given for a number of joinery types. Helpful advice and tips are given throughout both the techniques and projects sections. The projects range from quite simple (Morris Chair footstool) to middling complex (various chairs). Some unusual items are also included, such as the Limbert Tabouret, which is a table with four interlocking legs, and the "Lost Stickley Side Table", a Stickley prototype with straight legs in back and splayed in front. Only two really modern pieces are included: a Prairie Style coffee table and an outdoor version of the Morris Chair. The included CD has additional plans. Considering the excellent content, the quality of the book itself, and the bonus CD, this book is quite a bargain.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book, but a caveat ..., December 25, 2008

By	D. Williams (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book has considerable overlap with Popular Woodworking's Authentic Arts and Crafts Furniture (2000 ISBN 1558705686). The Limbert Bookcase featured on the cover, the Limbert Inlaid Rocker, Morris Chair, Greene and Greene Entry Bench, Prairie Spindle Chair, and Mantle Clock were all in the earlier volume, as were the introductory articles on the History of Arts and Crafts Furniture and Construction Techniques. With about one-third of the content is duplicated, the publisher should make the relationship to the earlier work clear. Not doing so detracts from an otherwise excellent compilation of high-quality articles.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to making Arts and Crafts furniture, April 17, 2008

By	Kenneth H. Clark (La Habra, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was very challanged to expand my skills after I read this book. The projects were interesting and worthy of handing down to my family as heirlooms.