500 Chairs: Celebrating Traditional & Innovative Designs (500 Series)
Lark Books, 2008 and 2009.
$24.95 each; Chairs 408 pp; Tables 420 pp.
Here’s a book set we recently received from editor Ray Hemachandra and we’re giving you an opportunity to win both books. Leave a comment here for your chance to win.
These books are inspirational. They are loaded with photos of Chairs or Tables from the likes of Sam Maloof, Garry Knox Bennett, Kristina Madsen, and Alfred Sharp. The pieces range from the unusual to traditional. For example, in 500 Chairs you’ll find the “New Ladderback” by Garry Knox Bennett (a chair w/ a step ladder for the back) and more traditional Windsor Chairs by Curtis Buchanan. 500 Tables includes coffee tables, chess tables, dining tables and all sorts of other “tables”.
Lucky ClifP is the winner. His comment was chosen at random. After he has had a chance to review the books, check back here for his comments.
And check out the current giveaway, Zany Wooden Toys that Whiz, Spin, Pop and Fly.
Comments
I just built a coffee table that this would look perfect on.
Hello,
I have most issues of Fine Woodworking from issue 1 on along with fine furniture and a shelf full of woodworking books. While I am a fair woodworker, my design skills lack any imagination what-so-ever.
I am about to embark on a project to build my wife a dining room table out of some wood I purchased 30 years ago, Brazilian Rosewood and I would love to come across an inspiring leg and apron table design before I commit my most prized wood to the shop.
I have been searching for over two years for just the right design and I would appreciate the table and chair book to assist me in this endeavor.
Thanks for this web site and your fine contributions to the art of woodworking.
Jack
I will be deployed when this contest is over, blessing to the one who wins.
Oh, these two books would fit so well in my collection.
Sign me up...I love chairs
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These would look great lying around the house on chairs and tables.
Count me in!
Sounds like something I could use!
Sign me up please
Pick me, pick me
Planning an end table. I would love some inspiration.
This will be very usefull
Yes, please.
can never have enough books, or is that clamps????
Thanks
in....
Sign me up.
Count me in!
pull up a chair and dance on the tables
Count me in.
Count me in on this one!
Wow! More inspiration. I can do with as much as I can get. The covers already have my brain in overdrive. What will the insides do?
Looks like a great place for ideas
free books - for the WIN!
Very interesting cover!
always looking for a good design book
My wife and I don't even have a coffee table, so any inspiration for a new one would be appreciated.
Many thanks!
Looking forward to receiving this one.
The only thing better than a good book is a free good book. ;-)
I love making furniture!
I love woodworking books!
I've always wanted a set of these books. Count me in too.
looks interesting
Two good books means twice the fun!
what a great addition to my library!
I would love to add to my library!
These look great! I'm trying to picture the perfect chairs and table for my house, it would be great to look at all these examples. Count me in!
It would go great with my "400 Wooden Boxes" book!
Wow! What an awesome chair on the cover of that book!
Boom Boom
I can just see the joy on my wife's face when I tell her I did'nt deplete the check book buying woodworking books again! Please.... help me put joy on my wife's face.
Hey there,
Count me in please
Eoin
I have probably built more than 500 chairs in my 25+yr career, but not as many tables. I would love to have these books for inspiration.
Chairs Chairs Chairs...
Why do I keep making new ones when they can be such a pain to get right?
count me in and a suggestion mic the interviewee.
Admire the chairs for their comfortable bottoms and sensuous legs and prepare the tables to be used as dancefloors! Yea, inspire this :-O
I enjoy different constructions. I'm sure these books will deliver some different perspectives from a art standpoint.
that would add great value to my collection
I've built tables, but never chairs. Perhaps its time to correct this oversight!
I love to study beautiful items made by others, it helps inspire me to improve my skills. I recently moved to a new (112 year old) home so I would have room for a dedicated shop, and am just completing it - so this would be a perfect time for me to win and get to see and be inspired by more chairs than I would ever get the opportunity to see in person.
For anything creative to emerge from the mind, something imaginative must precede it. Beautiful books feed my imagination. They are tangible.
Similarly, woodworking is made meaningful to me almost entirely because of its three dimensional nature. Holding in the hand or looking directly at an object, while in the process of creation, is to exercise the power of the creator. Meaningful work indeed.
As a chair maker i like to see new shapes.
I consider chair making the ultimate chalange of woodworking. the book will add another layer of knowlege to my ability to design chairs. Thanks.
These books showcase the ART in woodcraft. Thank you for featuring them.
I would love to read these books.
My wife and I recently entered into a discussion about "high" art vs "craft" art, and why there are so many art museums, but so relatively few crafts museums. . We had visited a contemporary gallery here in Denver and noted that for us, some hint of the artist's intent vis-a-vis materials selection, craftsmanship, and functional purpose really made the difference between a piece speaking to us or not. I have always been interested in the tensions inherent in the division of furniture design and construction into the "art" or "studio" furniture approach, in which the maker looks to address form from a perspective in which functionality is less a concern, and more traditional, craft-driven approaches, where function and aesthetic demands are equally balanced. I am looking forward to delving into this set, as it follows a FWW tradition in exploring and illustrating these tensions.
(T)Ed Furlong
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