Contemporary

Based on a vintage Danish Modern piece, Chris Gochnour's side table has legs that pierce the tabletop and battens that hold the top flat, stabilize the legs, and provide the runners for the side-hung drawer.

This week on Classic Woodworking, Tom McLaughlin shares his contemporary take on a classic design: the Adirondack lawn chair. Using cypress, Tom shows how to cut a comfortable curve into the…

Updated design combines solid walnut with veneered panels

The table was designed in the hope that it would make the viewer look twice. The spiral legs are difficult to comprehend in a photograph but are easily understood when…

This is a murphy bed that I built in a contemporary style.  I modified the plans and made the verticals 2 1/4" thick.  I also changed the header that same.…

Console table of solid Gonçalo Alves and Beech.  Pinned mortise & tenon assembly. Stained with natural brou de Noix. French polish and natural oils finish. Made with traditional hand tools.

Huntboard Cherry, birds eye maple, claro walnut, ebony inlays. Waterlox finish.

The happy table - Solid quartered Oak, spalted Birch and African Blackwood 1/8" thick shopmade veneers. Drawbored tenon and mortise, dovetailed transverse bars, square supported corners - Made with...

These contemporary chairs are 1-1/4" baltic birch (3/4" and 1/2" glued up) and 2" canvas webbing. They are simple, sturdy and very comfortable. In some settings they look a bit…

This simple contemporary side table has two glued layers of 3/4" birch ply with 1-1/2" banding. Four embedded zinc-plated corner braces for reinforcement. Ebony stain. 18" x 18" x 18"