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Woodworking, especially furniture making, has many different designs/styles. Throughout its history, woodworking designs and styles have changed. Some of the more common styles are listed below. Traditional furniture styles usually include styles that have been around for long periods of time and have shown a mark of wealth and luxury for ...
The English forests of hardwood and conifer had been all but decimated by the thirteenth century. Beginning in the 1540s, further exploitation of its remaining forests ensued as British factories began consuming vast amounts of wood to fuel its iron industry.
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George Katsutoshi Nakashima (Japanese: 中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement [citation needed].
Timeline of LGBT history (25th century BCE – present) List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts by year (1867 – present) Timeline of same-sex marriage (1989 CE–present)
Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009) [1] [2] was an American furniture designer and woodworker. Maloof's work is in the collections of several major American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Philadelphia Museum of Art , and the Smithsonian American Art Museum . [ 3 ]
Charles Harold Hayward (26 April 1898 – 5 July 1998) was an English cabinet maker, editor of The Woodworker magazine, illustrator, and author of numerous books on woodworking. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Hayward has been described as "the most important workshop writer and editor of the 20th century".