Arts And Crafts Inspired

Square pins with shaped tops are a great feature of Craftsman furniture, but driving the pins without damaging the top is tricky. This wood driver helps.

Angle jig makes it easier to cut multiple beveled pegs on the tablesaw.

With an understated shelf, beveled through-tenons, and stretchers shaped at the ends to corbel-like curves, this coffee table evokes the traditional Arts and Crafts style without being too serious.

Tom McLaughlin builds a Craftsman-style side chair with a reclined backrest, curved crest rail, and angled mortise-and-tenon joinery.

Going beyond Stickley to uncover the riches of a many-faceted movement

Woodworker: Gregory PaoliniGregory Paolini modeled his book rack after the #74 Gustav Stickley book rack -- with its short design, V-shaped shelves, and D-shaped handholds. Paolini modified the...

Woodworker: E. Stewart Crick Crick drew from various Arts and Crafts influences to design this chest of drawers, combining elements of Stickley, Greene and Greene, and Mackintosh. The quartersawn...

Woodworker: Chris Rand At 50, Rand decided to begin a new career as a custom-furniture maker and enrolled in the Furniture Design and Craftsmanship program at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University...

Woodworker: Andy Rae Working with fellow furniture maker Jan Derr, Rae designed this freestanding island for a furniture-loving couple with a houseful of Arts-and-Crafts furniture. The challenge was...

Woodworker: Sam Norris Norris built these hickory chairs in his second year in the Fine Woodworking Program at the College of the Redwoods in California. Initially, he planned to make…