Deco Furniture Plans?

MikeT nyc

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Mar 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/11/98

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I'm nuts about Art Deco (also called "Modern" or "Moderne") furniture, and I've
occasionally seen plans for such pieces in Popular Machanics-type magazines
from the '40's and '50's. However, I have never been able to locate a book of
plans or measured drawings for such furniture, although you see books on
building Colonial, Shaker, Mission, etc., up the wazoo. Is anybody else into
Deco furniture, and do any books on building it exist?

EJenisi

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Mar 11, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/11/98

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Mike

>I'm nuts about Art Deco (also called "Modern" or "Moderne") furniture,

Nope, there is Moderne, Art Deco and Modern, they're not the same. Tthis may
explain why you're having trouble finding stuff.

>I've
>occasionally seen plans for such pieces in Popular Machanics-type magazines
>from the '40's and '50's. However, I have never been able to locate a book

Well, Deco ran from the late 20's thru the 30's, so you're 10-20 years late in
where you're looking.
Not being a wiseguy, you're just starting off from some false info which will
make it harded to get where you'r goin..
Check Dejanews.
Ed

MikeT nyc

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Mar 13, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/13/98

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I don't think you're a wiseguy, but I'm not sure how your answer is relevant to
what I said. You mean I DON'T have Deco plans in '40's and '50's issues of
Popular Mechanix? Then what are they doing sitting in my bookcase? I realize
the places I've found such plans in are not the ideal places to look, but
earlier stuff is scarce, and even prewar hobbyist magazines are hard to find,
due to wartime paper drives. In general it would seem that Deco continued as a
design influence much later than the 30's, probably spread by the 1939 World's
Fair, and the early postwar styles were influenced by it. Eventually, Colonial
seems to have taken over everything.

Is Dejanews a magazine, and what does it cover? I've never heard of it before.

Bill Edwards

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Mar 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/17/98

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In article <19980313074...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, mike...@aol.com (MikeT nyc) wrote:

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>Is Dejanews a magazine, and what does it cover? I've never heard of it before.
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Mike,
It doesn't look like anyone got back to you with your question. Sorry
if I am repeating old news. DejaNews is a website which maintains a
compilation of newsgroup articles for sometime back. An archive if you will.
I am using Netscape and to get there I just type in the location window:

http://www.dejanews.com

hit "enter" and there I am. once there follow the links by clicking "hobbies"
and/or "other hobbies" and it will take you to the "rec." section. It also
offers a search engine which I, at least, have found fairly useful. If there
is much there on your topic you should be able to find it. Hope this helps.
Good luck.

Bill

Art Davila

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Mar 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/17/98

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Well maybe this might help
you, I just bought 2 books
that I could not find in my
area and they were less than a
wood working supply house
which would not take my credit
card (visa mastercard only) It
is a online book store called
Amazon.com. Hope that they
can help you.

Keven

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Mar 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/18/98

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I just picked up 3 woodworking books from late 70's
at the used book store. Talk about deco! :-)
You oughta try some of those places.

LorPaschal

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Mar 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/19/98

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In article <19980313074...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, mike...@aol.com

(MikeT nyc) writes:

>Is Dejanews a magazine, and what does it cover? I've never heard of it
>before.

DejaNews has, among other things, a search engine where you can look up past
posts about things of interest to you. You get there by visiting the web site:
http://www.dejanews.com

-- Lori