Product Description

Large scale plans for 54 fine pieces including cherry desk, tall clock, and gate leg table.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #559094 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 67 pages

From the Back Cover
A carefully detailed guide to fine eighteenth century American furniture

"In this the last work of Ejner Handberg, you'll find primarily non-urban examples of New England furniture. These pieces are typical of what prosperous citizens of a budding new nation had in their homes far from the din of city life. As in his previous books on Shaker furniture, Ejner has undertaken the exacting task of making measured drawings to enable you to make accurate reproductions. It's up to you to do the rest." -From the foreword by Paul Kleinwald

In addition to his lifelong appreciation of Shaker furniture and artifacts, Ejner Handberg devoted much study to American furniture of the eighteenth century. His book of detailed drawings of beautiful New England pieces is a companion to this famous Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware. Newly reprinted and supplemented by a foreword by Paul Kleinwald, this book is of enduring interest to furniture makers, antiques lovers, libraries, and museums.

Measured Drawings of Eighteenth Century American Furniture and Woodenware

This book includes careful advice on the selection and drying of wood and provides accurate scale drawings of such pieces as:

Mahogany Tall Case Clock

Cherry Slant-Front Desk

Cherry Lowboy Butterfly Table

Dresser and Mirror

Tambour Desk Windsor Chair with Writing Arm

Cherry Tip-top Table

Pine Chest Cherry Bonnet Top Highboy

Cherry Chest

Maple Candlestand Continuous Arm Windsor Chair

Cherry Desk and Bookcase

Gate-leg Dining Table Cherry Chest on Chest

Chest with Two Drawers Below

Maple Highboy Cherry Chest of Drawers

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.

Paul Kleinwald is a highly regarded restorer of antiques. He and his wife, Susan, are dealers in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, specializing in American and European furnishings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Customer Reviews

Not for the beginning woodworker
This book offers drawings of some beautifully proportioned furniture pieces, including chests of drawers, highboys, lowboys, desks, a clock, tilt-top tables and windsor chairs. The author/editor give no guidance for cutting, joining or assembling the pieces. Judging from this and the lack of detailed templates for scroll work, and from the sometimes incomplete measurements, it was not compiled with the beginning woodworker in mind.