This video goes inside the home of Lonnie Bird, a leading furniture maker and teacher in Dandridge, Tennessee, who is best known for building period reproduction furniture with modern ingenuity. Bird shows off four classic reproductions in his home collection. Each piece is featured as a project in his intensive workshops at Lonnie Bird’s School of Fine Woodworking, which he operates out of his spacious home workshop. 

They include a keeping box with a hinged lid and two small drawers; an 11-drawer Pennsylvania flat-top tall chest sometimes referred to as a highboy; a Pennsylvania spice cabinet with a flat-panel door and eight small drawers; and a Pennsylvania Chippendale armchair that features a hand-carved back splat. This chair is often called a four-shell armchair, because of the four carved shells on the crest rail, seat rail, and each of the knees.

For more about Lonnie Bird and for information on his classes, visit him online at www.lonniebird.com. To access articles, books, and more photos of his work featured in The Gallery, visit his woodworker profile.