This title presents professional techniques to bring your furniture back to life. It offers complete instructions for dismantling and rebuilding chests, polishing, waxing and staining, how to repair tops and feet, and how to rebuild drawers and doors. It includes a fascinating history describing how chests and cabinets have evolved over time, as well as advice on buying and using tools, equipment and materials. Projects include repairing a split top, replacing a bracket foot, repairing a glazed door, correcting a minor twist, restoring desk drawers, and repairing a grandfather clock. Chests and cabinets often endure a hard life, and over the years the working parts can be damaged through wear and tear. This book provides complete instructions for repairing chests, drawers, doors and desks, all photographed at a leading antique restoration workshop. Projects include replacing drawer runners, cutting a dovetail joint, repairing a sliding tambour, refitting a door, and polishing a 19th-century desk. Detailed information is given on how each piece of furniture is constructed, and how it can be dismantled and reassembled. Illustrated with over 400 beautiful photographs, the book will enable any restorer to learn how to mend antique furniture.

About the Author
William Cook studied at the London College of Furniture, and worked for a leading furniture dealer before joining Christie's auctioneers in London. He then joined his family's restoration business, W. J. Cook & Sons, whose clients have included royalty, museums and collectors.


Book Information
ISBN 9780754829164
Author William Cook
Format Hardback
Page Count 96
Imprint Lorenz Books
Publisher Anness Publishing
Weight(grams) 431g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 176mm * 13mm