Crafting New Mexican Furniture: A Handbook to Design, Plans, and Techniques

by Kingsley Hammett

This guide will help you craft your own New Mexico style furniture. Covers pieces of furniture for every room in the house. Color plates of finished pieces and design plans included.

110 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't know why but I feel drawn to New Mexico design furniture. Maybe I was a Pueblo Indian in another life? Kingsley Hammett has carved out a bit of a niche for himself (Pun intended - you may smile) in this area of design history. This book is not such a homage to the past as his other books. Rather it's a guide to making new furniture in the classic New Mexico design. I prefer my pieces to look new anyway. I have done "distressed" copies of historical pieces - but I prefer to make them as if I was the original maker and trying to imagine how the few surviving, historical pieces would have looked when they were brand spanking new.