Customers say
Customers find the book provides a good overview of mission-style furniture with detailed instructions and diagrams. However, opinions differ on the visual style – some find it interesting with an interesting look at turn-of-the-century America and the arts, while others say the drawings are simplistic and barely legible.
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Mission style has withstood the test of time. In homes across America and around the world, Mission furniture creates a look and feel to a home that few others styles canelegant and homey, all at once. This is a classic book of Mission-style furniture, filled with plans for the do-it-yourselfer and inspiration for architects and designers. Included are chairs, tables, desks, beds, shelves, and other more unusual items like wastepaper baskets, clocks, music stands, and even a porch swing. Each project includes a cutting list and detailed, measured drawings of each furniture piece, as well as the general order of work along with handy finishing tips.
ASIN : B0064DFRH8
Publisher : Skyhorse; Reprint edition (March 1, 2010)
Publication date : March 1, 2010
Language : English
File size : 89172 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 367 pages
by Alaster Grey
Highly recommended
Three well-edited and well-typeset books of historically accurate, public domain plans, with colorized images that do a much better job of conveying what the furniture looks like than the original line drawings did. The plans are extensive, ranging from every conceivable type of furniture to make-your-own equipment instructions (such as a steamer box!) that will allow you to build more types and shapes of furniture (like bentwood).
by Alan Dale Daniel
Good Diagrams
The key to a woodworking book publishing old designs is the quality of the plans. In this instance the plans are pretty good, and the author used color to help the reader distinguish parts. The disappointment comes from the age of the designs; that is, the tables et al are obviously made in an era when wood was cheap – at least compared to today. The amount of materials used for most of the projects is truly prodigious. Legs on some of the side tables take up more material than the top (for example).Still, it is a book of old designs and you can alter them to use less material or update the design to be a bit more “modern” without too much trouble. The finishing advice is totally out of date and the materials used to finish the wood are substandard compared to modern finishing materials. See Bob Flexner’s book on Finishing for top notch advice on that subject. That book is also available on Kindle.Since the book I purchased is a Kindle edition I worried about being able to pull up the plans to a size that was readable. There was no problem. The plans easily expand to a more than full screen size and you can move around over the plans and see them very well in most cases. I have a Kindle Fire so the color in the plans really helped.AD2
by Amazon Customer
Good guide
A must have if you’re making mission style furniture.
by LINDSEY PHILPOTT
So simple and a great value!
Accurate, systematic information about style, methods and finishing is all included. With this book it is possible to recreate one of the most interesting periods of furniture-making – try it for yourself!
by Christopher Vuxton
Not great
Ok, the biggest problem, its hard to read as a kindle book. The drawings are VERY simplistic and even if you zoom in (after you figure out how) you can’t read the dimensions. You might get a few pointers, heck its only $0.99 but don’t expect much.
by Oliver Dunn
Very Well laid out plans
Easy to follow, very clear diagrams. I have been using plans from this outfit for the last 15 years.
by Spencer in Seattle
Mission Style Overview and How To
I got this for my iPad and thought it offered a nice overview of mission-style furniture. So much furniture that is called “mission style” is really modern mission-style furniture, which is soooo different from the historical pieces. The pieces in this book are much more ornate and elaborate, in a lot of ways, than their modern descendants. I learned a lot from this book, mainly in the areas of joint work and design.
by Cobbler
Our mission is Mission
My wife and I are trying to decorate our new house with Mission style stuff. The problem? We have different ideas on what is “mission.” I bought this older book to use as an argument arbitrator. (Didn’t want 36 years of blissful marriage to end on a furnishings argument!)
by P. Chamberlain
i like the pictures
by Ismael Guillén
on time, very good
by J. Franco-Reyna
Great historical book to get ideas from. Had trouble with some of the old product references but, awesome information here.