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These Pennsylvania-style spice boxes feature the use of figured walnut highlighted with brass hardware. The pieces are put together with traditional hand-cut dovetail joinery. See article in FW#124, pp. 37-41.

Classic Windsor-style chair with antique painted finish.

Updated version of the Shaker apothecary table in maple, bird’s-eye maple veneer, and poplar. Handmade cocobolo pulls complete the piece. It is finished with shellac and varnish.

A modern take on a piece originally designed for military use. This campaign chest functions as a desk rather than the luggage/furniture conbination of its predecessors. The piece is made…

Hepplewhite-style server in cherry. The inlay designs on the front are done in satinwood. The piece is finished with orange shellac.

Bird’s 18th-century pipe box is made from curly maple and poplar. it is finished with aniline dye and shellac.

Englander’s center table is an exact reproduction of the original Biedermeier table originally built in 1820. The only “upgrade” is a square tenon joint system rather than the traditional dowels…

Asian-inspired sideboard in white oak by Seth Janofsky.

Windsor-style settee in maple. It is finished with aniline dye and shellac.

Mahogany and silk damask Chippendale-style stool by Randall O’Donnell. The piece features hand-carved ball and claw feet.