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Yoav S. Liberman is a studio furniture artist, an architect and an inventor. His work combines the old and new, using found objects and discarded wood as sources of inspiration for the pieces that he builds.

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Rescue a Windsor-Style Chair – Part 3: Regluing and Finishing
by Yoav S. Liberman Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Carving the chair's crest rail was fun, and I think that adding the scroll detail improved it. The next step was to glue the parts together. In some cases, where parts were not disconnected but just loose, I injected glue in between the tenons and...
Rescue a Windsor-Style Chair – Part 2: Repairs and Embellishments
by Yoav S. Liberman Saturday, December 25, 2010
Once I finished stripping the old finish, I started planning the necessary repairs and alterations. I had to make two new spindles. To compensate for the missing ones, I had to re-glue a loose carved detail under the arm rest and to decide how to make...
Rescue a Windsor-Style Chair - Part 1: Removing the Old Finish
by Yoav S. Liberman Tuesday, December 21, 2010
A few years ago I found an old Windsor chair near the dumpster of one of the buildings in Harvard. It was a snowy day and, when I picked up the chair, I saw that it suffered from few problems - loose legs and stretchers, missing and broken spindles. I...