Five Lessons from Mid-Century Modern Furniture
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 You can purchase Michael Crow’s DVD “Building Techniques in Mid-century Modern Furniture,” at shopwoodworking.com As a material object, a piece of furniture reflects the taste of its designer, the skill of its maker and larger cultural influences. For example, Shaker furniture shows the elegance of simplicity and the value of using local woods, while Utility furniture derives from post-World-War II scarcity. You don’t need to be a cultural historian […]The post Five Lessons from Mid-Century Modern Furniture appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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A Hardware Store That Will Take You Back in Time
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 Dennis McEvoy and Bart Slutsky of Rogersons Hardware in Hudson NY are doing the herculean job of keeping a great old American hardware store alive, and they are doing it well. Swimming against the stream is fraught with difficulty, but thefive-story building thathas housed Rogersons Hardware since 1830 is a testimony to McEvoy and Slutskys success. In this building there is an unprecedented inventory of rare locks, hinges and varioushardware.There […]The post A Hardware Store That Will Take You Back in Time appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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