Little Book of Wooden Boxes: Wooden Boxes Created by the Masters (Fox Chapel Publishing) Featuring 31 of Today's Finest Woodworkers & Artisans with Profiles, Insights, and Studio-Quality Photos. This item is unavailable.Little Book of Wooden Boxes: Wooden Boxes Created by the Masters (Fox Chapel Publishing) Featuring 31 of Today's Finest Woodworkers & Artisans with Profiles, Insights, and Studio-Quality Photos

This craftsman's companion celebrates the uncontained creativity of woodturners, furniture artists, and elite craftsmen from around the world!

• 31 profiles of today's finest woodworkers and artisans including Andy Buck, Jenna Goldberg, Ulrike Scriba, Hans Weissflog, and more
• Over 250 photos, full-color and studio-quality, of stunning pieces including jewelry boxes, desk boxes, reliquaries, keepsake boxes and more
• Insights and design ideas for spectacular work that takes box-making to a higher level of aesthetic form
• Author Oscar P. Fitzgerald is a nationally known historian, author, lecturer, and consultant

Little Book of Wooden Boxes features 31 of today's finest woodworkers and elite artisans—such as Michael Hosaluk, Steven Kennard, Richard Raffin, Jacques Vesery, Bonnie Klein, and Hans Weissflog—who share their amazing techniques, their inventive talents, and the inspiration that fuels their distinctive designs.

Each artist's profile includes full-color, studio-quality photographs of their most spectacular and inspirational work, including jewelry boxes, desk boxes, reliquaries, keepsake boxes and more, along with insights on their design ideas and objectives.

Curated by nationally known historian and author Oscar P. Fitzgerald, this book is sure to become a treasure in every woodworking library.

Little Book of Wooden Boxes is presented in an attractive pocket-sized 5.75-inch by 7-inch format and will make a cherished gift for any woodworker!

Profiled artists include:

• Bonnie Bishoff and J.M. Syron
• Andy Buck
• Kip Christensen
• Jim Christiansen
• Jean-Christophe Couradin
• Andrew Crawford
• Michael Cullen
• Jenna Goldberg
• Louise Hibbert
• Michael Hosaluk
• Robert Ingham
• Ray Jones
• Kim Kelzer
• Steven Kennard
• Yuji Kubo
• Po Shun Leong
• Peter Lloyd
• Tom Loeser
• Michael Mode
• Craig Nutt
• Jay and Janet O'Rourke
• Emi Ozawa
• Andrew Potocnik
• Richard Raffan
• Ulrike Scriba
• Jeff and Katrina Seaton
• Tommy Simpson
• Bonnie Klein and Jacques Vesery
• Philip Weber
• Hans Weissflog

"Full of ideas for studio artists and advanced hobbyists and should inspire them to see boxes and other containers as works of art, not just as functional objects."
—Library Journal

"If you are interested in stretching your mind and your woodworking 'out of the box' then this book is for you."
—Lumberjocks.com

"This is an inspiring book that is sure to appeal, not only to those who either make or wish to make boxes, but also to anyone who enjoys seeing and learning about the very finest work of the world's great wood artists."
—Australian Woodworker Magazine

Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University and served as director of the Navy Museum in Washington, D.C., until he decided to pursue full time his passion as a furniture historian and decorative arts consultant. He is a member of the faculty of the Smithsonian Institution/Corcoran School Master's Program in the Decorative Arts, where he developed and teaches a core course on the studio furniture movement. His book Four Centuries of American Furniture is the standard reference work in the field. Fitzgerald's 2008 book, Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery, chronicles the development and expansion studio furniture movement in the United States through the Renwick Gallery's collection. In 2004, he was awarded a prestigious James Renwick Research Fellowship, which funded research for an essay published in the 2005 issue of Furniture Studio.