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	Bernard Cotton, THE ENGLISH REGIONAL CHAIR. Ref: 9009 Published by ACC. The most complete and authorative study of this piece of English furniture. Detailed survey of 1000s of chairs and 100s of makers. The author gives a lively account of the development of hundreds of chair types from all over England, and the lives of the craftsmen who made them. . 279 x 216 mm. 512 pp. 69 colour and over 1400 b&w illustrations. hb. Jacketed. Click image to enlarge. Price: £49.50


	FW, DESIGNING AND BUILDING CHAIRS. Ref: 9008 Published by Taunton Press. This is a compilation of the best articles on chair design and building taken from Fine Woodworking magazine from: Garrett Hack, Sam Maloof, Harriet Hodges, Will Neptune, Christian Becksvoort, Reg Alexander and others. Chapters inlude: Chair Making Basics; Working Green Wood; Compound-Angle Joinery; Shaping the Arm of a Chair; Making Chair Seats, carved softwood ones, coopered and woven ones; Finishes and Finishing Chairs. Projects include: Building an Arts & Crafts chair; Shaker rocker and a Shaker revolving chair; oval Chippendale stools and a bowback Windsor chair. Many specific instructional colour photographs and b&w drawings. 275 x 215 mm. 156 pp. 100s of illustrations, mainly colour photographs, some b&w line drawings. pb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £12.99


	Nancy Goyne Evans, WINDSOR CHAIR MAKING IN AMERICA: From Craft Shop to Consumer. Ref: 9210 Published by the University Press of New Englsnd. Drawing largely from original sources this definitive study chronicles the making and development of the most important and used American chair. Part 1 deals with the Craft of the Chairmaker: The craftsman; the master; the apprectice; partnerships; migration; working hours and wages; merchants and trade organisations; business reverses and disasters; prison work; facilities equipment and materials; construction and design. Part 2 deals with Merchandising and Consumerism; marketing and markets; early 19th century trade, both coastal and foreign; inland distribution; sales techniques; payment; transportation and packaging;the role of the Windsor seating in American life. 350 x 230 mm..xvi + 476 pp. 16 pp. of colour plates and 242 b&w illustrations. hb. Jacketed. Click image for further details. Price: £45.00


	Michael Harding-Hill, WINDSOR CHAIRS. Ref: 0060 Published by ACC More than 150 colour plates illustrate the best of Windsor chairs from the earliest stick-backs of the 18th century through to those mass produced for offices, schools and others during the 19th century. There is also a special section on American Windsors and it ends with the story of this chair through the 20th century ISBN 1851494294 278 x 216 mm. 160 pp. 180 colour plates and 15 b&w. Hardback. Click image to enlarge Price: £25.00


	John Kassay, THE BOOK OF AMERICAN WINDSOR FURNITURE: Styles and Technologies. Ref: 0157 Published by University of Massachusetts Press. Included are chairs of every description, as well as stools, tables, settees, cradles and candle stands. Particular woods were used for different components of chairs: ash, hickory and red oak for bending, maple for turning and pine for seats. Kassay meticulously documents all features and exact measurements of 198 pieces and includes 34 full page drawings with measurements. The draughtsmanship is to the very high standard of Kassay's book on Shaker furniture ISBN 1558491376 305 x 230 mm. xxii + 265 pp. 224 pp. 21 illustrations and 34 measured drawings. Hardback. Click image for further details. Price: £45.00


	Jeff Miller, CHAIRMAKING AND DESIGN. Ref: 9010 Published by Stobart Davies. Thiis 2nd. edition in 2006 gives plans for seven chairs and instructions broken down into tasks that are easy to manage. The author demystifies the art of making chairs, which to many amateur woodworkers is intimidating, . All the illustratiions are specifically instructive; from the diagramatic detailed drawings to the photographs showing just how to hold tools and perform the specific tasks with them. 255 x 200 mm. viii + 200 pp. 16 pp. of full colour photographs and 100s of b&w photographs and line illustrations. pb. Click image for further details. Price: £16.95


	Muller & Rieman., THE SHAKER CHAIR. Ref: 0100 Published by Schiffer/Brushwood An extensive text, heavily illustrated and with an insert of plans. This is the finest study of the quintessential Shaker object: the chair. Much original source material has been gathered here, diaries, letters, bills of sale and lading, contemporary photographs, postcards, advertisements and catalogues. Full description of types of chairs, dating of various forms and an account of manufacturing processes ISBN 0764317393 300 x 228 mm. 248 pp. 430 photographs and line drawings and an 8 page chart insert. Paperback. Click image to enlarge Price: £24.95


	Phoenix Chair Co., AMERICAN WOODEN CHAIRS 1895 - 1908. Ref: 9032 Published by Schiffer. The Phoenix Chair Company was one of the largest manufcturers of wooden chairs at the end of the 19th century. The factory employed up to 500 men and occupied 18 acres of land in Sheboygan Wisconsin. This catalogue shows illustrations of 720 different patterns of wooden chairs in oak walnut, elm and other woods with $ prices. An huge collection of chair patterns. 270 x 210 mm. 368 pp. 360 pp. of b&w drawings throughout. pb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £24.95


	Aldren A Watson., COUNTRY FURNITURE. Ref: 0171 Published by Norton. The author describes the process of furniture design, carefully delineating the fine details and instructing the reader or how best to accomodate their particular designs. The commentary is helped by meticulous illustrations ISBN 0393327779 2545 x 205 mm. 274pp. 409 b&w illustrations. Paperback. Click image to enlarge Price: £11.99

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