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The Custom Furniture Sourcebook: A Guide to 125 Craftsmen by Kerry Pierce click to enlarge

The Custom Furniture Sourcebook: A Guide to 125 Craftsmen

Kerry Pierce
This illustrated directory leads you to 125 makers of fine furniture, with photos and profiles of their work and complete contact information. Includes discussion of how to specify and purchase custom work for the home or office. Indexed by geographic location, type of furniture, and maker. Many super photos of contemporary work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction
1. Purchasing Custom Furniture
2. Aequalis Furniture
3. Alexious Designs Associates
4. Om Anand
5. Andy Rae Woodworking and Writing Studios
6. Antique Refinishers
7. Art Forms Furniture
8. Lonnie Bird
9. Black Creek Designs, LLC
10. Blackwater Woodworks
11. Bob Kopf's Wooden Works
12. Boston Woodworking Co. Ltd.
13. James Bowie
14. Bradley A. Boggie, Furnituremaker
15. Brian Jones Woodworking
16. Curtis Buchanan
17. Charles Durfee, Cabinetmaker
18. C. H. Becksvoort Furniture Maker
19. Christoph Neander: Art and Design in Fine Furniture
20. Claire Fruitman Furnituremaking
21. Bruce Cohen
22. Colorado Colonial Furniture
23. Custom Wood Designs
24. Dale Helms Fine Furniture
25. D. Andrew Kates, Cabinetmaker
26. Dan Mosheim Custom Furniture
27. Darrell Peart, Furnituremaker
28. David Kiernan Furniture Designs
29. David Sawyer, Windsor Chairs
30. David Wright Windsors
31. Design Sculpture in Wood
32. Edmundson Fine Woodworking
33. 18th-Century New England Fine Country Furniture
34. Eric Englander Cabinet and Furniture Making
35. Fogelvik Furniture
36. John Reed Fox
37. Fox Brothers
38. Gallery Woodworking Company
39. John Gallis
40. Gloor Design
41. Jeffrey P. Greene
42. Gregg Lipton Furniture
43. Gregory W. Guenther, Furniture Maker
44. Grew-Sheridan Studio
45. GWC Design
46. Heitzman Studios
47. Heritage Woodcraft, Inc., Design Studio, Fine Woodworking
48. Ian Ingersoll Cabinetmakers
49. Irion Company Furniture Makers
50. Jacobs Reproductions
51. Jamie Robertson Designs
52. Seth Janofsky
53. Jeff Lind, Fine Woodworking
54. Jesse Woodworks
55. J. Miller Handcrafted Furniture
56. JoAnn Schuch Woodworking
57. John A. Kapel Design
58. John Houck/Studio Furniture59. J. P. Callahan, Ltd. LLC
60. Kent James Odell Furniture
61. Kevin Kopil Furniture Design
62. The Kingswood Shop
63. Kinloch Woodworking
64. Don Kondra
65. Kurt Gutbier Woodworking
66. Kurt Piper Woodworking
67. Lawrence J. Perna, Antiques
68. LeFort Fine Furniture
69. Lutkus III Design
70. Mack and Rodel Studio
71. Mack S. Headley and Sons
72. Mark Levin Studio
73. The Master's Touch
74. Harv Mastalir
75. Maynard and Maynard Furnituremakers
76. M. C. Seward, Custom Furniture Maker
77. Michael Cullen Design
78. Michael Hoffer Furniture and Design
79. Miles Clay Designs
80. Miters Touch
81. Morton Fine Furniture, Inc.
82. Timothy Mowry
83. Nojo Design
84. Norris Woodworking
85. Peklo Design and Joinery
86. Peter Shepard Furniture
87. Dennis Paul Peterson
88. Peter S. Turner, Furnituremaker
89. Philip C. Lowe, Maker of Fine Furniture
90. Peter Robert Presnell
91. Randy Weersing Furniture Design and Fabrication
92. Rasche Cabinetmakers
93. Owen Rein
94. Riverside Artisans, Inc.
95. Robert Brown Design
96. Robert Erickson Woodworking
97. Ron Day Designs
98. Sammis Woodworking
99. Scott Ernst Custom Woodworks
100. Signature Gallery
101. Skantyllion
102. Janice Smith
103. Solomon Ross Furniture
104. Stanton Hill Studios
105. Stephen H. Smith, Cabinetmaker
106. Stephen Perrin Woodworking
107. Craig Vandall Stevens
108. Stevenson Classic Woodworking
109. The Studio of Andrew Millican
110. Studio Furniture
111. Ted Blachly Furniture
112. Thomas Stangeland, Artist/Craftsman
113. Timothy S. Philbrick Studio
114. Tomnay Industrial Design
115. Trevor Corp Woodworker
116. Trimworks
117. William Turner
118. Gregory Vasileff
119. Vermont Furniture Works
120. Kerry Vesper
121. West Bank Studios
122. White Wind Woodworking
123. Wilkinson Koa Furniture
124. Windsors by Peter H. Wallace
125. The Workshop of Charles Neil
126. Woodworks, Inc.

Style Index

Regional Index

272 pgs, 9x11, 536 color photos, softcover
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