Legendary Mid-Century Designs Highlighted in the Boyd Collection
Get an inside look at the legendary contemporary and mid-century designs featured in the Boyd Collection at Chicago's Wright auction house.
New Handles For a Mid-Century Walnut Dresser: Part 2
Read Part 1 Here After the terraced rhombus was formed, it was time to start coving. The required radius for the coves, as dictated from the original handle was 1”. ...
New Handles For a Mid-century Walnut Dresser: Part 1
Read Part 2 Here The dresser A few months ago I received an email form a person who wanted to know if I could build two walnut handles for a...
Five Lessons from Mid-Century Modern Furniture
As a material object, a piece of furniture reflects the taste of its designer, the skill of its maker and larger cultural influences. For example, Shaker furniture shows the...
Off the Grid: Variations on a Mid-Century Modern Bookcase
There’s something very graphical about the design of the Mid-Century Modern Bookcase I built for the October 2015 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. Viewed head on, the arrangement of dividers...
Nelson Platform Bench
Editor’s note: During his time design director for Herman Miller, George Nelson recruited a series of talented designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Propst and [...]
Risom Coffee Table
Editor’s note: The measured drawings for the Risom coffee table in this article by Michael Crow are similar to the shop drawings included in Crow’s new book, “Mid-Century Modern [...]
