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  • Rarely intent on invention, and wholly content with perfecting longstanding innovations, the Danes were able to adopt machine-made forms and techniques—a hallmark of Modernism in both architecture and design—with homegrown cabinet-making traditions.

    Danish Design's Homely Attraction J. S. Marcus 2011

  • Although Chinese art was his major delight, he had also acquired prints, Australian paintings, a collection of rare books, woodcuts by old and modern masters, and samples of English eighteenth and early nineteenth-century cabinet-making.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Afra and Tobia Scarpa, long time Maxalto collaborators, produced a series of furniture where wood plays the leading role, using old, traditional, and rare cabinet-making and lute-making methods.

    Interior Inspiration from B&B Italia’s Maxalto Collection 2008

  • Many of these men would not be able to return to their pre-war trades, so they learned new trades such as tailoring, barbering, watch-making, bookkeeping, bookbinding, printing, shoemaking, and cabinet-making.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • The Wassily Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus

    The Patron Saints of Poetik and what they have wrought + Interview with Hern Worsley, it's creator Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • The Wassily Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus

    Archive 2009-03-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • He began working with a merchant and then took on an apprenticeship in cabinet-making at age 17. sourceThe railroad sleeping car was developed during the industrial revolution.

    Archive 2008-03-01 ~~louise~~ 2008

  • Now over on this side, there's also a cabinet-making company.

    CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2008 2008

  • Mr. Day-Lewis says he was saved from himself when, after announcing he was going to take up an apprenticeship, he was told by his cabinet-making teacher that he didn't have the temperament for the craft.

    Sojourner in Other Men's Souls 2008

  • He began working with a merchant and then took on an apprenticeship in cabinet-making at age 17. sourceThe railroad sleeping car was developed during the industrial revolution.

    George Mortimer Pullman ~~louise~~ 2008

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