Description: Collector Bookstore 724 Delaware Street Leavenworth, KS 66048 Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration. SO-SCH-2003-0764317873-X2 Craft Furniture: The Legacy of the Human Hand by Dennis Blankemeyer ISBN:9780764317873 Book Title:Craft Furniture: The Legacy of the Human Hand Author:Dennis Blankemeyer Binding:Hard Cover with dust jacket Copyright:2003 Pages:208 Size:8.5 x 11 in. For many people contentment and fulfillment are found through the skill of their own hands. The 29 craftspeople featured in this book have given up weekly paychecks, pensions, and security for freedom to create their own dreams. The result is beautiful furniture, each piece the unique product of the furniture maker's creativity and skill. Heavily illustrated with beautiful color photographs, this book explores the lives and work of some of the most distinguished American furniture makers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with Wharton Esherick, James Krenov, Sam Maloof, and George Nakashima, who serve as the first generation of modern creators of craft furniture, it continues with 25 contemporary furniture makers who carry on the tradition today. A biography of each is given along with examples of their work. Today's hectic lifestyles and the increasing intrusion of technology are made bearable for many by the handcrafted furniture that provides balance and harmony in their homes. It offers meaning and comfort through the designs born out of the maker's heart, head, and hands. This book will delight and inspire designers, collectors, and anyone who loves handcrafted furniture. (SO Schiffer Categorical generated 2024-11-18) 6f6ea1ec262f11b682cbd75db7f59425
Price: 49.95 USD
Location: Atglen, Pennsylvania
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publication Year: 2003
Type: Price Guide
Region of Origin: America
Style: Mission, Arts & Crafts
Type of Item: Book
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Binding: Hardcover
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Contributors: Dennis Blankemeyer
Title: Craft Furniture: The Legacy of the Human Hand
Industry: Antique Furniture
