Satinwood

Twenty years ago, the Peabody Essex Museum exhibited the work of John and Thomas Seymour, father-and-son English émigré cabinetmakers who “played a significant role in shaping New England’s artistic heritage…

Canyon built this Federal bow-front chest of drawers while a student at North Bennet Street School. She was lucky to find satinwood veneer for the drawer fronts, whose curved substrates…

This desk was inspired by a piece made by the French art nouveau furnituremaker Jacques Gruber, though this design is simpler and visually lighter. The legs are tapered, bent laminations,…

Litto built this reproduction American Hepplewhite sideboard using drawings from Construction of American Furniture Treasures by Lester Margon (Dover Publications, 1975). He drew the piece in AutoCAD before beginning the…

The box in Kamerath’s grid cabinet might appear to be sliced in half, but that’s an illusion. “Each side is a single piece of sapele carved to appear cleaved,” he…

This table won the Fine Woodworking Best in Show award.

Woodworker: William ThomasThomas had been working as a carpenter in the 1970s when his father gave him an NBSS catalog. “As soon as I heard about it, I jumped all…

Woodworker: Donald J. SutkusBy the time he’d gotten two degrees in aerospace engineering and worked for Boeing for six years, Sutkus says, “I just didn’t feel like I was wearing…

Woodworker: Ed StuckeyStuckey, a member of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, built this Federal-style card table with inspiration from an article by Walter Raynes and Carl Clinton in...

Woodworker: Danny Kamerath Kamerath designed this table (10-½ in. deep by 13 in. wide by 35 in. tall) around a small piece of figured satinwood that he used for the…