An ottoman has spent as long as he can remember trying to get close to a lady's chair; and though fortune separates them and they seem to come to unhappy ends, a marvelous coincidence reunites them in a very happy way.
measured drawings of selected museum pieces with complete information on their construction and reproduction ... 38 full-page plates, 344 detail drawings and more than 40 photographs of the work of the most famous early American cabinetmakers
Contains an overview of how a wooden chair is made, in simple text with illustrations, explaining how the wood comes from trees, is cut into planks, and assembled into chairs.
