The
Arts and Crafts of Making Children's Furniture
A Practical Guide, with Step-By-Step Instructions
by Chris Simpson
Hardcover
230 x 230mm
176pp
Published by Stobart Davies, Hertford, UK
R.R.P.$37.90
ISBN 0-85442-064-9
Cosy Rocking Crib
Desk and Stool Set
Train Toybox
Classic Rocking Chair
Outdoor Playhouse
Aztec Pyramid Storage Unit
Extract from back cover of book:
This practical and comprehensive book is a full-colour step-by-step guide to designing and creating a range of original and stylish children's furniture. Home woodworkers of all skill levels will feel a real sense of achievement in making practical and fun items to suit each individual child.
The Art and Craft of Making Children's Furniture includes practical advice on tools and materials, basic construction techniques, decoration and safety. Learn how to select the right type of furniture for different age groups and how to adapt the designs as your children grow. The projects are all original and made by professional woodcrafters and furniture makers. For babies there is a traditional, highly decorated rocking crib. Young children will love the beautifully painted matching "Humpty Dumpty" stool and chair. Older children will be fascinated by the "Circus Tent" wardrobe and the toybox that thinks it's a train.
Full-colour illustrations will inspire and encourage you to adapt and customize the projects to create a full range of traditional, modern and unusual furniture as individual as your own children.
About the Author: Chris Simpson is a design consultant, respected furniture maker and an enthusiastic woodworker. A graduate of the Royal College of Art and former head of the Department of Fine Craftsmanship and Design at Rycotewood College in Oxfordshire, he lectures extensively around Europe and is a regular contributor to trade journals.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Metric & Imperial
Contents
How To Use This Book
Materials and Techniques
Cosy
Rocking Crib
by Paul Garratt
Desk
and Stool Set
by Paul Garratt
Train
Toybox
by Ian Heseltine
Classic
Rocking Chair
by Lucinda Leech
Outdoor
Playhouse
by Ian Heseltine
Aztec
Pyramid Storage Unit
by Robin Davies
Shapely
Shelves
by Robin Davies
Humpty
Dumpty Stool and Chair
by Robin Dale
Wild
Animal Bed
by Glenn Hinton
Circus
Wardrobe
by Glenn Hinton
Index
Credits
Shapely Shelves
Humpty Dumpty Stool and Chair
Wild Animal Bed
Circus Wardrobe