• American Furniture 2015 (American Furniture Annual)

    Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present.Table of ContentsEditorial Statement, Luke BeckerditeBarnard Eaglesfield: A Prominent Philadelphia Cabinetmaker RevealedJay R... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0982772270
    • ASIN: 0982772270
    • ISBN: 0982772270
    • Brand: Chipstone Foundation
    • Manufacturer: Chipstone Foundation

  • Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works (Fox Chapel Publishing) Over 1300 Drawings & Diagrams for Drawers, Tables, Beds, Bookcases, Cabinets, Joints & Subassemblies

    Design and construct furniture that works with the help of the most complete visual guide ever published! It's all here: Ideas and Inspiration. A visual source of information ranging from furniture styles and dimensions to joinery. The essence of more than 100 classic furniture pieces is captured in highly detailed, exploded drawings. Standards. Take the guesswork out of designing kitchen cabinets, dining tables, desks, bookcases, and chests by applying the time-honored dimension and ergonomic standards shown here. Options and Alternatives. With more than 150 joints and subassemblies at your ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1565233697
    • UPC: 858924002019
    • ASIN: 1565233697
    • ISBN: 9781565233690
    • Brand: Design Originals
    • Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing

  • Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

    The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas.One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Fu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 031623141X
    • ASIN: 031623141X
    • ISBN: 031623141X
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • How To Make Kitchen Cabinets (Best of American Woodworker): Build, Upgrade, and Install Your Own with the Experts at American Woodworker

    An "everything but the kitchen sink" guide to building kitchen cabinets and making simple, but impactful kitchen upgrades from the expert's at American Woodworker.

    • ASIN: 1565235061
    • UPC: 858924002705
    • ASIN: 1565235061
    • ISBN: 1565235061
    • Brand: Design Originals
    • Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing

  • Winchester: An American Legend

    The most lavish work ever produced on American long arms, this book has been published with the full cooperation of the Winchester Division of the Olin Corporation, as well as Winchester licensee, the U.S. Repeating Arms Company. The book's large format presents many of the firearms in exquisite close-ups, accompanied by substantial details of history, development, and significance.  Variations within model groups are given ample attention, and the book's organization gives an unequaled overview of nearly a century and a half of Winchester achievement.  A unique, comprehensive table in the ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0785818936
    • ASIN: 0785818936
    • ISBN: 0785818936
    • Brand: Brand: Chartwell Books
    • Manufacturer: Book Sales, Inc.

  • The Maker's Hand: American Studio Furniture 1940-1990

    To connoisseurs of modern furniture, names such as Wendell Castle, Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof and George Nakashima are signposts to a revolution in the decorative arts that remains one of the most vital of our time. For the past half-century, the Studio Furniture movement has grown in reaction to the traditionally designed and mass-produced furnishings generally available to Americans. Instead, studio furniture makers offer works that are innovative in design, finely hand-crafted and representative of a unique sensibility--works that stand midway between function and fine art. The Maker's Ha... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0878466622
    • ASIN: 0878466622
    • ISBN: 0878466622
    • Brand: Brand: MFA Publications
    • Manufacturer: MFA Publications

  • Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color (Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts)

    Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or black--during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities. His surviving furniture and architectural woodwork still represent the best of nineteenth-century craftsmanship and aesthetics. In this lavishly illustrated book, Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll show how Day plotted a carefully charted course for success in antebellum southern society. Beginning in the 1820s, he produce... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 080783341X
    • ASIN: 080783341X
    • ISBN: 9780807833414
    • Brand: Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
    • Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press

  • Fiona: Sweet Western Historical Romance (Mail-Order Brides Club Book 7)

    ~Note~ Jane, the 9th book in this series, is now available! Fiona Carmichael loves her career as a reporter with the Boston Globe. Writing is her passion. When her fiance, Harry, forces her to choose between her career or marriage, she knows what she wants to do. But when he tries to manipulate her decision, it gives her little choice but to follow her friends to Bozeman, MT as a mail-order bride for one of the Donovan brothers.Peter Donovan is reserved and artistic. He's content building beautiful wooden furniture, with his sweet dog, Rosie for company. But it's a lonely life... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01BXOWFNG
    • ASIN: B01BXOWFNG

  • The History of Remington Firearms: The History of One of the World's Most Famous Gun Makers

    A fully illustrated history of one of America’s finest and most innovative company.

    • ASIN: 1592286909
    • ASIN: 1592286909
    • ISBN: 1592286909
    • Brand: Brand: Lyons Press
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

  • Federal Furniture

    Provides complete instructions for making copies of tables, chairs, beds, chests, mirrors, desks, and candlestands from the Federal period

    • ASIN: 0918804485
    • ASIN: 0918804485
    • ISBN: 0918804485
    • Brand: Brand: Taunton Pr
    • Manufacturer: Taunton Press

  • A history of the Old Hickory Chair Company and the Indiana hickory furniture movement: "the best gall darn furniture you ever did see"

    Copyright 1995. Published by Ralph Kylloe Antiques and Rustic Publications. Paperback. 196 pages.

    • ASIN: B0006FAHEI
    • ASIN: B0006FAHEI
    • Manufacturer: Ralph Kylloe Antiques and Rustic Publications

  • Guns on the Early Frontiers: From Colonial Times to the Years of the Western Fur Trade (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)

    This thoroughly documented, authoritative, and highly readable book not only details the weapons used during the settlement and westward expansion of America but also describes their use by fur traders, trappers, soldiers, and Native Americans. The result is a lively historical examination of the momentous events that were strongly influenced by the gun trade.The text is augmented and enriched throughout with clearly identified illustrations of everything from antique muskets, flintlocks, repeating rifles, and howitzers to bullet molds, powder horns, and other firearm accessories.“An outstan... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0486436810
    • ASIN: 0486436810
    • ISBN: 0486436810
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • Early American Furniture Makers - A Social and Biographical Study

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

    • ASIN: 1443730351
    • ASIN: 1443730351
    • ISBN: 1443730351
    • Manufacturer: Ormsbee Press

  • AMERICAN CRAFT December 1998 January 1999 Magazine JUNE SCHWARCZ: SAN FRANCISCO CRAFT & FOLK ART MUSEUM Mark Weinstock: Leather - A Sensuous Material In The Hands Of A New York Craftsman-designer

    CHARDIET: STILL LIFE WITH BLOWN AND CAST GLASS ILLINOIS ARTIST JOSE CHARDIET RECONFIGURES THE TRADITIONAL TABLE TOP STILL LIFE INTO A RESTLESS PLACE OF CURVES, CRANNIES AND APERTURES. JACK AND MARILYN DA SILVA:PARTNERS IN LIFE, COLLEAGUES IN WORK, THESE CALIFORNIA METALSMITHS STAKE OUR DISTINCT ARTISTIC IDENTITIES

    • ASIN: B071WGHK3R
    • ASIN: B071WGHK3R
    • Manufacturer: Lois Moran

  • American Furniture Classics OS Home and Office Microwave/Coffee Maker Utility Cabinet, White

    Free up valuable counter and cabinet space with this microwave, coffee maker, etc. kitchen organization station. The OS Home and Office Model 25503 white kitchen storage item features a spacious drawer and hidden storage behind two raised panel doors.

    • ASIN: B06XX3BL1X
    • UPC: 812771017138
    • ASIN: B06XX3BL1X
    • Brand: American Furniture Classics
    • Manufacturer: American Furniture Classics

  • Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

    Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales

    • UPC: 43379930
    • Rating: 3.667

  • Thomas Day : African American Furniture Maker

    Originally published in the North Carolina Historical Review, v. 78, no. 1, Jan.

    • UPC: 838879491

  • Factory Man : How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

    Describes how the chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture fought for his more than seven hundred employees in a small Virginia town using legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and his wits and determination in the wake of sales

    • UPC: 32981907
    • Rating: 3.714

  • Carving 18th Century American Furniture Elements: 10 Step-By-Step Projects for Furniture Makers (Paperback)

    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

    • UPC: 14513041

  • Early American Furniture Makers - A Social and Biographical Study

    Early American Furniture Makers - A Social And Biographical

    • UPC: 13935515

  • Early American Furniture Makers

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important,

    • UPC: 53302284

  • Gelato Fiasco : Recipes and Stories from America's Best Gelato Makers

    Joshua Davis and Bruno Tropeano, two guys right out of college, felt that something was amiss. People in Maine created some of the best of everything in the world -- higher education, ships, television doctors,

    • UPC: 985254494

  • Early American Furniture Makers - A Social and Biographical Study

    Early American Furniture Makers - A Social And Biographical

    • UPC: 13323488

  • Marvel Captain America Shield Waffle Maker

    Begin your morning with a superhero approved breakfast! Have fun and enjoy a golden-brown waffle shaped like Captain America's

    • UPC: 136800211
    • Model: MVA-278
    • Color: Blue
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Early American Furniture Makers

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important,

    • UPC: 13370970

  • Britain's greatest furniture maker at work at his world-famous workshop

    Secondhand Stories: Daniel Chaffin Furniture Makers

    Top Ten Most Expensive Furniture Brands In The World