While he now specializes in 17th-century oak furniture from England and New England, his first real furniture project was a chair very similar to the stool he made in FWW issue #277. A longtime contributor to Fine Woodworking who is also prized by Sotheby’s and Christies as an expert on period craftsmanship, Breed teaches classes in carving and period furniture making in his shop near Portsmouth, New Hampshire.īiography: Peter has been involved in traditional woodworking for the past 40 years. In the decades since, he has worked as a consultant and conservator on some of the most prominent pieces of American period furniture, and has reproduced hundreds of pieces, including the Nicholas Brown Desk and Bookcase, the Newport secretary built by John Goddard that sold at auction for $12.1 million. Tools and the Furniture Maker: A Personal Historyīiography: Growing up in New Hampshire, Allan Breed began buying, repairing, and reselling antique furniture in his early teens, and before he was 20 he was serving an apprenticeship in conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He’s also the author of The Shaker Legacy (The Taunton Press, 1998), With the Grain, A Craftsman’s Guide to Understanding Wood (Lost Art Press 2015), and most recently Shaker Inspiration: Five Decades of Fine Craftsmanship (Lost Art Press, 2018). He has been doing restoration work at the last Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake since 1976. A Lifetime of Woodworking Tips and Tricksīiography: Chris has more than five decades of experience in forestry, wood technology, joinery, and design, and his pieces are featured in collections throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.
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