Mission Furniture


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An essential tool for dealers and collectors trying to identify makers, this book includes histories of the major mission furniture companies including Stickley, Limbert, Roycroft, Young, Harden, Leavens, and others. Provides identification clues and a glossary of terms. This excellent reference source is a must for dealers, collectors, interior designers, and anyone interested in the American Arts and Crafts Movement.




Illustrated Mission Furniture Catalog, 1912-13


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Reprint of actual home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, illustrating and describing 400 items, many designed to be shipped knocked-down for reassembly at home.




Mission Furniture


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Mission style has withstood the test of time. In homes across America and around the world, Mission furniture creates a look and feel to a home that few others styles can—elegant and homey, all at once. This is a classic book of Mission-style furniture, filled with plans for the do-it-yourselfer and inspiration for architects and designers. Included are chairs, tables, desks, beds, shelves, and other more unusual items like wastepaper baskets, clocks, music stands, and even a porch swing. Each project includes a cutting list and detailed, measured drawings of each furniture piece, as well as the general order of work along with handy finishing tips.




Mission Furniture You Can Build


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Starting with the basics -- selecting the correct wood and tools, outlining the skills needed -- Wagner provides plans for 10 authentic replicas of furniture originally designed by Gustav Stickley, the man behind the Mission movement. He makes it simple to create endlessly satisfying period pieces such as a Morris chair, bookcase, couch, and coffee table.




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Mission Furniture: How to Make It


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This book is one - the scond - of the series of Handbooks on industrial subjects being published by the Popular Mechanics Company. Like Popular Mechanics Magazine, and like the other books in this series, it is "written so you can understand it." The purpose of Popular Mechanics Handbooks is to supply a growing demand for high-class, up-to-date and accurate text-books, suitable for home study as well as for class use, on all mechanical subjects. The text and illustrations, in each instance, have been prepared expressly for this series by well known experts, and revised by the editor of Popular Mechanics.




Mission Furniture: How to Make It III


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This book is one - the third - of the series of Handbooks on industrial subjects being published by the Popular Mechanics Company. Like Popular Mechanics Magazine, and like the other books in this series, it is "written so you can understand it." The purpose of Popular Mechanics Handbooks is to supply a growing demand for high-class, up-to-date and accurate text-books, suitable for home study as well as for class use, on all mechanical subjects. The text and illustrations, in each instance, have been prepared expressly for this series by well known experts, and revised by the editor of Popular Mechanics.




Easy Mission-Style Woodworking Projects


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Complete instructions and precise diagrams for making mission-style bread boards, candlesticks, footstools, folding tables, chairs, writing desks, more. Perfect for woodworkers of all ages and abilities. 62 halftones and diagrams.




Mission Furniture


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