What style do you prefer?

Shaker

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

I like to create my own style . Not interested in anyone else,s :)
If i did have to pick a style it would be Victorian .

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Arts and Crafts/Craftsman

-- Nat - West Sayville,L.I., NY

John… true, in so many cases we create our own, either from our hearts or drawn from existing styles. Or just wing it and see what happens!

Gary

-- Gary Roberts, http://toolemera.com

Federal.
-Rabbet

Greetings Gary: I build a few different styles of furniture, but my favorite is Shaker style. I really build what the wood tells me, and just see how it turns out. My favorite though is still Shaker because it is simple in design and functional. The Shaker motto was.. form follows function, and that’s what it does. One you didn’t list that I enjoy more than building furniture is building “shop furniture”, i.e. cabinets, workbenches, work tables, oufeed tables… any shop stuff. I think shop furniture should not only be functional, but also look nice and when built right, will stand the test of time and last forever…....... take a look at my shop pixs, and you’ll see what I mean.

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I think shaker with southwest materials. Is rustic a style?

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Probably Arts & Crafts

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Rustic is a distinct style. In the latter part of the 19th C, Rustic furniture was popular, made of natural wood twigs and branches, boards with waney edges and all that great Adirondack stuff.

Shaker remains one of my favorites too. Periodic trips to Hancock Shaker Village feeds the need. The only downside is finding plans or pictures of the furniture or architecture that predates copyright. But I keep on looking.

Arts & Crafts – one of my all time favorite publishers was The Manual Arts Press. Right at the turn of the 19th-20th C, they published many wonderful books of measured drawings of Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau furniture, all for the manual arts educational movement.

Southwest is something I have been looking for but is a tough one to find. I think it was not ‘high style’ enough for the book publishers. But, I’ll ask Stephen Shepherd if he knows of good titles. If anyone does, he would.

My thanks for the feedback. It provides a valuable focus on what people like or dislike (by process of elimination).

-- Gary Roberts, http://toolemera.com

Japanese, Tokugawa and Meiji Periods

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I like Greene & Greene style arts & crafts, but I am mostly a deck builder/wood craft maker, so I don’t get to much of that.

-- Steve-- http://www.urbanexteriors.biz

Gary, it sounds like you and I enjoy making similar styles of furniture/cabinetry: A&C and Shaker.

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