Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware
- Book Review,
by Ejner Handberg
Book Description
Large-format book with more than 90 detailed drawings and advice on how to use various woods.
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, Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware emphasizes simplicity, precision and utility. This book, along with Mr. Handberg's Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware, Volumes 1, 2, and 3, is represented by 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. Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware This book includes careful advice on the selection and drying of wood and provides accurate scale drawings of such sought-after Shaker items as: Apothecary cupboardSewing StandRevolving Stool Sewing AccessoriesWorkstand High Chair Cupboard ChestCandlestandsStool DippersChest of DrawersTrestle Table FootstoolChair finialsWork counter Drop leaf tableSetteeKnobs and pulls Tailoresses' counterWashstandsWall clock Oval boxes and carriersSewing deskChairs Lap desk 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.
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