With over 200 detailed illustrations and descriptions, these two catalogs are essential reading and reference materials and identification guides for ...

Directly influenced by William Morris' Arts and Crafts Movement in England, the Stickley family created what is now known and prized as Craftsman styl...

In 1902, four years after Gustav Stickley began building furniture in his United Crafts Workshops in Eastwood, New York, his brother Leopold establish...

This splendid book describes and illustrates in detail how the Shakers designed, built and finished their furniture and household articles. With its d...

Identifying American Furniture offers answers to the questions most people ask about furniture: "What style is that?" "How can you tell?" and "When wa...

This book will help you discover: how to determine the basic style of a piece; how old it is; how to identify the wood; how to examine a piece of furn...

Oak furniture continues to be the backbone of collectible furniture from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth...

In 1929, wicker furniture reached its peak of popularity, not surpassed until today's widespread enthusiasm for antique and modern styles. This is the...

Basic, step-by-step instructions for building a comb-back Windsor chair, using traditional methods. With the simplest of hand tools and a lathe, even ...

Give life to old cane furniture and weave seats and backs for new pieces. Traditional techniques and new shortcuts make caning with wicker, rattan, ra...

Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth and development of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showing...

This book is for anyone who owns a "Hoosier" cabinet, is trying to find one, or is planning to restore one. It is about the kitchen cabinets sold from...

This is the perfect introduction to Shaker furniture design.This concise book surveys distinctive furniture styles produced during the nineteenth and ...

Eileen Dubrow has exhaustively combined all original catalog material from major American furniture manufacturers of the 1880s and '90s. This period w...

It is possible to completely furnish a home using the plans outlined in this valuable study of Mission-style furniture. For the Arts and Crafts enthus...

Learn traditional chair seating using six-strand caning or rush weaving with marsh grass, straw, and alternative materials. These two crafts share the...

This concise yet wide-ranging survey of collectable antique furniture, illustrated throughout in full colour, guides the new collector through almost ...

Considered among the highest achievements of the American arts and crafts movement, Greene & Greene furniture was custom-built for specific interior s...

Attractive, adaptable, and built to last, Craftsman furniture is one of the most popular styles today. Collected from the pages of the most authoritat...

Hundreds of handsome designs from the turn-of-the-century are presented in this, the most comprehensive collection of glowing oak furniture ever publi...

Here's a little treat out of the attic. This may be today's penultimate guide for researching and pricing popular chairs from the past. This guide has...

This book is a facsimile reproduction of the Elgin a. Simonds company's furniture catalog. It presents the reader with an extensive resource of tradit...

For well over a century, the world has noted the distinctive chairs made by Shaker communities throughout the eastern United States. A writer for Hous...

What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western n...

The sleek lines of Danish Modern furniture took the design world by storm in the mid-twentieth century. Among the American companies that manufactured...

Combining stylish, contemporary looks with sturdy construction and ease of use, light-colored furniture produced by the Heywood-Wakefield Company from...

Incorporating antique furniture and art into a modern home may seem like a contradiction, but Karin Laserow and Britt Berg show just how easy it is an...

The story of an American design classic "In a very real sense, the Hoosier cabinet was a key element in the transformation of the American kitchen fro...

This mammoth catalog of American furniture manufacturers shows, for the first time in modern publication, the styles of furniture available at the hei...

The Herman Miller Furniture Company was devoted to manufacturing period reproduction furniture until pioneer industrial designer Gilbert Rohde walked ...