Flat pack furniture - dowel improvement ?

[Davide]

You try buying any piece by Phyfe or Belter (19th C Americans) o Majorelle or Ruhlmann (20th C French), then you tell me abou valuable... ;-)

David

-- Davide

[Andy Dingley]

Lovely slate-topped coffee tables in solid oak.

Mind you, they're not cheap. I'll do you a similar sofa side table for the same price, and mine has real mortice and tenons holding it together, not a steel bracket.

[Andy Dingley]

Phyfe is nice, but it's really a hang over from the 18th century, IMHO, US Federal is the best-designed furniture ever made - even better than the slightly earlier and rather overblown Goddard-Townsend stuff.