ACT7713

Anna Thornton, Brookline, MA, US
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Anna Thornton has been building fine furniture for 6 years. She focuses on using domestic hardwoods in a variety of styles from federal, gothic, modern and McIntosh.

Anna is an engineer by training. For her day job, she helps manufacturing companies design and produce high quality products.

Her work was recently highlighted in the reader's gallery (#218)

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Serpentine Federal Table

Jan 23, 2009

Federal style table in English Sycamore. The inlay is done in holly and ebony. The piece has a bent lamination front.

Curly maple chippendale chest

Jan 2, 2009

Chest based on a plan from Glen Huey. It was scaled down to fit better as a bed side table

Mahogany Blanket Chest

Dec 31, 2008

Mahogany Blanket Chest with cedar lining.

Chester County Tall Chest

Dec 31, 2008
4 comments

Curly maple chest of drawers from Glen Huey's "Fine Furniture for a Lifetime"

Spalted Maple Hall Table

Dec 31, 2008

My goal was a simple table that would show off the amazing spalting in this piece of wood. I wanted the legs to reflect the wavy spalting in the top. The top was finished very carefully...

Tansu Style Chest

Dec 31, 2008
2 comments

The pippy chestnut and matching spessart oak were an impulse buy during a visit to Talarico hardwoods. They sat in my shop until I was inspired by a Japanese chest in the Peabody Essex...

Recent comments

Re: Future Period Furniture Articles

If you are looking for styles that you haven't already written many articles on....

I would like to see more European turn-of-the-century. Styles such as Art Nouveau (galle), Glasgow School (Macintosh) or the modern gothic (Pugin). The Biedermeier style of 50 years earlier is also rarely discussed.

Thanks

Anna

posted: 11:49 am on February 11th