SAPFM Members
in the News
Brian Coe has written about a Moravian Christmas pyramid and describes how to make one in the 2008 Christmas issue of Early American Life.
Mary May's carving career is the subject of a feature article in the October 2008 issue of Woodshop News.
Al Hudson's work is featured in the October/November 2008 issue of American Woodworker Magazine.
Ed Stuckey's Federal demi-lune card table appears in the December 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine.
Tony Kubalak has won the Best Traditional Design Award from the Minnesota Woodworking Guild. Tony exhibited a Philadelphia Queen Anne side chair. You can read more about Tony's honor and the chair in the August issue of Woodshop News.
Congratulations to the following SAPFM members who appear in Early American Life's 23rd Directory of Traditional Crafts: Dennis Bork, James King, Tony Kubalak, Paul Rulli, Mark Soukup, Duane Wendling, Fred Chellis, Brian Cunfer, and Jim Van Hoven. Cartouche Award winner Gene Landon served as one of the judges for this year's Directory.
Eight pieces of Bob Whitley's work from the Michener Art Museum's retrospective exhibit appear in the Gallery of the August 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine.
Walt Segl's shop is featured in an eight-page spread in WOOD magazine's special interest publication America's Best Home Workshops 2008.
Jeff Headley explains how to make a veneered serpentine drawer front with cockbeading in the July/August 2008 Fine Woodworking. In the Master Class feature, Jeff shows how to apply stringing to the same serpentine shape. Joel Ficke and W. Patrick Edwards have work featured in the Reader's Gallery.
Joshua Lane, Co-curator of Historic Deerfield, is mentioned in the May 2008 Magazine Antiques for his role in organizing the exhibition Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture. The exhibition runs through 2012. Visit Historic Deerfield for more information.
Phil Lowe's McIntire armchair, Frank Woolley's serpentine bombé, and Mike Greenberg's collectibles box appear in the Gallery section of the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Joel Moskowitz explains how he hollow grinds chisels in the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Steve Latta compares 16 different marking knives in the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Robert Whitley's furniture is featured through June 1 in a retrospective of his work at the Michener Art Museum. Robert is the 2002 Cartouche Award winner.
Mark Arnold writes about the Peabody Essex Museum's The Art of Woodcarving in America exhibit in the June 2008 issue of Woodwork Magazine.
Tony Kubalak's serpentine bombé and Joel Ficke's Philadelphia high chest appear in the Gallery section of the June 2008 issue of Woodwork Magazine.
Steve Latta writes about reproducing moldings in the April 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Alf Sharp, 2008 Cartouche Award recipient is featured in the March issue of Woodshop News.
Peter Howell's workshop is featured in the February/March 2008 issue of Woodcraft Magazine.
Patrick Edwards writes about painting in wood in February 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
The Chairmaker Part III
The Berlin chairmakers manufacture the following chairs in particular:
1. The common chairs distinguish themselves from side and parlour chairs. The underframe of the side chair (Tafelstuhl), fig. XVII, including the thickness of the seat, is 18 inches high. The height of the back depends on the fashion, and currently in this area a lower back is fashionable. These chairs will generally be woven with cane. The parlour chair (Kammerstuhl) comes between the side chair and the next arm chair (Fauteil) that follows. Its underframe is approximately 14 to 15 inches high, but broader in the seat than the side chair, its back short, and according to present fashion, hollow or round in its breadth. It can be caned or upholstered and takes it place generally in the ladies' bedroom.
2. The stool (Tabouret) is a chair without a back, caned or upholstered, and is 16 inches high.
3. The arm chair (Fautiel), fig. XVIII, is called in Berlin the Invalid (Kröpel) or Invalid Chair (Krüppelstuhl). It differs from common chairs in part in that it's broader, and sometimes also lower, its underframe being generally only 14 to 15 inches high. The most important difference, however, is that the armchair has arm rests, a & b, and posts, b & c. There are currently three kinds of armchairs in fashion. In some the armrest is, as in fig. XVIIIb, bent as the horn of a ram. In contrast, the arm and support of the so called French and Parisian arm chairs have a different profile that one can best become familiar with by observation. The Parisian armchair, like the parlour chair, is given a hollow back. To this type of chair also belongs the dressing chair (Toilettstuhl), which is used in the distinguished ladies' room when being dressed. It differs from the armchair only
in that its supports are not as in c, fig. XVIII, [but] rather mortised next to the back as in d, so that she is not hindered when dressing. In addition, it receives casters on its feet. Generally, it's covered with a cushion. All of these armchairs will be caned or also upholstered.
