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  Early American
New England Tilt Top Chair / Table I have to admit, that I am somewhat of a perfectionist when it come to making
scale furniture, which sometimes caused problems that are hard to over
come. I'm not saying that I execute the design perfectly, but I do strive
to attain perfection. Even with these extra problems, I believe the end result is a scale piece
that looks real! This is the main reason I start with full scale plans to build
my scale furniture.
When homes began to become more than a place to eat and sleep after a long days
work furniture began to become art. It became important to create pieces that were
not only functional, but would also look good. This meant that furniture could
no longer be built using extra thick wood bolted or strapped to a frame to
prevent warping, and thus began the era of making furniture out of thinner more
delicate wood chosen for its appearance, not its strength. When this happened,
new methods of providing strength and functionality had to be created, and
resulted in many new method of building furniture, that are still used today.
I believe these methods should be reflected in the furniture we miniaturists make as well!
I was recently looking through one of my old miniature furniture pattern books I
picked up in 1978 and found a plan for an Early American Chair / Table, but realized that even though the patterns resulted in a nice
looking piece from a distance – it just wasn’t accurate to the original. For
example the table top was made from a single piece of wood instead of smaller
pieces glued together. So I went to the Internet and did a bit of research and
found a wonderful c1820-1850 maple and pine tilt top chair/table to
base
this miniature furniture pattern on.
This Early American Tilt Top Chair/Table was invented because homes were built small,
often only a single room. Space had to be conserved, and many
pieces of furniture needed to perform multiple functions, Not only did this
great looking piece provide
a place to sit, but it was also functioned as a table.
The original early American New England tilt top chair table was
constructed using maple and pine c1820 to 1850. This country chair / table has a
two board top measuring 39 and one half inches across,
and most likely a 1 inches thick wood table top was used. The table surface is 30 inches high.
The chair base is 19 and one half inches wide, 20 inches deep and 20
inches to the seat surface. Originally painted green, I prefer a natural
(yet aged) look to the wood. The original Early American Tilt Top
Chair/Table still has the old paper label reading "J. E. Kasow 27
Bishop St Waterbury CT Value $12.00" attached to the bottom of the seat,
which I've duplicated for your scale copy.
Below are the pictures of the original I found on the Internet - Click
the picture for a larger view in a new window.
There are two files in PDA format that you can download - One for the
DIMENSIONS and the other is
a
PATTERN file. Good
Luck and let me know what you think of this pattern.
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