UPDATE: Book Giveaway: American Furniture 2003, Edited by Luke Beckerdite
Sep 13, 2009
Buy the book here
American Furniture 2003, Edited by Luke Beckerdite.
Chipstone Foundation, 2003.
$60.00; 328 pp.
American Furniture is an annual publication that started in 1993. It presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation and is devoted exclusively to furniture made or used in the Americas from the 17th century to the present. This edition, American Furniture 2003, contains 6 extensive articles and 3 book reviews and covers such topics as “Early Carving in the South Carolina Low Country: The Career and Work of Henry Burnett”, “Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Bedsteads”, “Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism”, and “The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture”. The book is filled with color and black and white photos of furniture, paintings, architecture and more. I think this would be a great addition to any woodworking library.
Lucky Dreher is the winner. His comment was chosen at random.
Check out the latest giveway for your chance to win a copy of Shop Drawings for Greene & Greene Furniture by Robert Lang.
Comments
Maybe I'll win a copy since I'm the first guy to comment.
Please allow me to cut your chances in half, Jake. ;-)
by a third
This would be a great addtion to my woodworking library!
Count me in.
Awesome series of books. Count me in!
In for the drawing too, love furniture books. But my all time favorite are the toolbox and workbench books.
Count me in.
I am excited at the opportunity to win!
I'd love to win a copy of this book seeing as how i'm just starting out.
Count me in
Throw my hat in the ring
The Book looks great, put my hat in the ring for it.
Great Book !!
This looks like a great boox to add to my group.
Hey there,
looks like a good book to have. A great Lou-Reid maybe...
Eoin
Like it and want it.
Love to have this one, great writer.
I really want to know more about how furniture was made generations ago. I just found out that my wife's great grandfather was a furniture maker and undertaker. History of woodworking is fascinating.
Just a beginner at woodworking, would like to learn more byu obtaining the book
Just a beginner at woodworking, would like to learn more by obtaining the book
I've always enjoyed learning how craftsmen solved problems. This book sounds like a good learning tool.
I would like this in my library
Looks great. Thanks for the opportunity.
Any time I have a chance to win another Taunton guide for my shop, I'll comment. Trial and Error Bad. Taunton Guides Good!
Can a person own too many books? Most times it is the only place you can find the answer you are looking for, books that is.
I came across the American Furniture series in the Ohio University library several years ago and was floored. The information presented was enlightening, and gave me the inspiration to delve further into period furniture and the history surrounding it, culminating in my decision to seek formal education and training in the cabinetmaker's trade. Each volume is so painstakingly assembled and coordinated, it is a masterwork in itself, in annual installments. It would be wonderful to have this reference at hand, instead of in the reference section in the library!
IN :)
I'm in. Yes, please send this valuable/useful book.
*IM IN*
Me too
I have yet to see the chipstone collection Beckerdite organized. put me on the list(any thing about the willing table?)
Did I make the deadline?
That will be an interesting read.
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