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A mission chair suitable for the dining room, a very comfortable and attractive porch chair, a well-proportioned mission library table, a beautiful roll top desk, a handsome settee, a mission sideboard the projects go on and on, up to nearly 100 of the finest, most desirable pieces of Mission furniture that you could ever want to make. Each project features accurate measured drawings and an illustration of the completed piece, while all the instructions have been prepared by experts and written in a clearly understandable style. In addition, all of the furniture is authentic Mission, actually built during the years around 1910 when this classic how-to material was first published.

If the projects listed above are not exactly what you had in mind, you might want to choose from projects such as these:

Morris chair
Lawn swing
Dresser
Hall clock
Rocking chair
Writing desk
Couch with cushions
China closet
Bookcase
Extension dining table
Bedstead
Wardrobe
Serving table
Chafing-dish buffet
Leather back arm chair

Or start off with one of these unusual smaller pieces: lamp stand and shade, mission candle-stick, mission shaving stand, mission waste-paper basket, mission plant stand, plate rack, leather-covered footstool, arts-crafts mantel clock, wall case with mirror door, arts and crafts oil lamp, medicine cabinet, sewing box, umbrella stand, wall shelf, mission book-rack, and foot warmer.

This inexhaustible selection is one that all woodworkers will want to have. The projects are worthwhile and often challenging, and there are even special sections explaining some of the techniques used to make Mission furniturestaining oak, marking dowel holes, bending wood and cutting tenons. Antique collectors and historians of American style will also welcome this edition, and miniaturists will find the measured drawings invaluable.

Unabridged (1980) republication in one volume of three original (1909, 1910 and 1912) parts. 98 projects. 213 illustrations, including measured drawings. Publisher's note. Analytical Table of Contents: .