The Windsor chair and its craft in American furniture
A detailed look at chair making from raw lumber to assembly, highlighting Windsor chairs as a premier example. The piece describes lumber curing, bending work, precision in joints, rigid cabinet-room inspection, and the wheel maker turned chair designer who helped birth Windsor styles in America.
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Seaboard
Aserax City
Windsor
George I
Windsor Forest
Philadelphia
Chippendale
Hepperwhite
Sheraton
England
America
Brick Orders Jump Shipments Increase
The common brick industry reports uneven business by region with overall improvement. Orders on books are 13 percent higher than a month ago while May shipments rise about six percent and stock on hand grows 13 percent. Brick produced to kiln readiness increases 24 percent.
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Common Brick
Common Brick Industry
Easterner Heads Architects in AIA Presidency
With the election of Mr Everett Waid the presidency of the American Institute of Architects shifts from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast. Wald, long a leader in the profession, succeeds William B Faxaside of San Francisco and becomes a national figure in the institute.
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Everett Waid
American Institute of Architects
Pacific
Atlantic Coast
Wald
William B Faxaside
San Francis En
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