English period furniture designs,

Arco Pub. Co [Published date: 1968]. Hard cover, 111 pp. [Excerpt from front jacket flap] English period furniture seems to acquire ever-increasing popularity, and antiques certainly command higher prices each year. Old pieces have a charm and dignity largely lacking from much of the mass-produced and machine-made furniture of today. This book should appeal to those who merely find period furniture aesthetically pleasing and interesting and also to the cabinet maker and home craftsman who enjoy making reproductions. The scale drawings and explanatory details should be particularly useful. All are drawn from the originals by the author. The selection is wide and varied and includes nearly fifty pieces from the three main groupings of furniture?oak, walnut and mahogany. Ail are articles of everyday use.Further sections on furniture through the ages enable the reader to see at a glance the major changes in style that have occurred and the characteristic mouldings used in the oak, mahogany, walnut, Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Sheraton periods.Charles H Hayward is an authority on the history of furniture design and his outstandingly successful English Period Furniture is a classic. He was editor of Woodworker magazine for many years and has written more than thirty books on a wide variety of woodworking subjects.