Amish Handcrafted Entertainment Center Furniture!

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the
Amish Coffee Table
in the Amish Entertainment Center Suite

This Amish Windsor Coffee Table is known for being made of 100% wood, no particle board or laminate is used, and there is great attention paid to the details of the wood in the furniture making process. Each piece of wood is hand selected to match the specific furniture in mind. Attention is paid to the grain of the wood, both in gluing pieces together, and in achieving the desired look of the finished piece. Amish furniture is also valued for its sustainability. The Amish woodworkers pride themselves in their work, and view their product as both a piece of art, and a furnishing to be used and lived in for generations.

Amish furniture first gained attention in the 1920’s when early American folk art was “discovered” and dealers and historians placed great value upon the beauty and quality of the pieces. Many different styles of Amish furniture emerged. The Jonestown School began in the late 18th century in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The Jonestown School is most widely known for painted blanket chests decorated with flowers on three panels. Examples of these chests are on display at both the Smithsonian Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Another distinctive style of Amish furniture is the Soap Hollow School, developed in Soap Hallow, Pennsylvania. These pieces are often brightly painted in red, gold, and black. Henry Lapp was a furniture maker based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and it is his designs that most closely resemble the furniture we think of today as Amish made. He was one of the first to abandon the painted, Germanic-style influence in his furniture, and opted for an undecorated, plain style, following more the styles of Welsh furniture making of the time. The order book he offered to his customers contained watercolor paintings of his pieces, and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The record price for American folk-painted furniture was sold at Sotheby’s in 1986. It was a tall case clock made in 1801 by Johannes Spitler that sold for $203,500.

source: wikipedia

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