A national society of working makers, twenty-five years deep. Chapters meet through the year at a pace they set themselves. The Conference comes once. The magazine, four times.
Regional groups meet on their own rhythm — some monthly, others a few times a year. Each chapter sets its own program — bench demonstrations, study groups, visiting makers, weekend workshops, museum trips. Some chapters host fifty members at a time. Others meet around a single workbench in someone's shop.
All twenty-two are part of your membership. Most members attend whichever chapter is closest, but visiting members at other chapters' events is welcomed and common.
Find your chapter → Coast to coast.The national Conference each year pulls members from every chapter into one room for four days. Bench demonstrations from working masters. Member presentations. The Cartouche Award presentation at the banquet. Tours of museum collections and private workshops in the host city.
The 2026 Mid-Year Conference meets at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking in Manchester, with optional tours bracketing the weekend — the Yale Furniture Study with curator Patricia Kane on the Friday, and the Stanley Weiss Collection and John Brown House in Providence on the Monday.
2026 Conference details → Manchester, Connecticut. October 2–5, 2026.American Period Furniture arrives in your mailbox each December — long-form research, edited by Robert W. Lang, printed in the United States to last on the reference shelf. Pins & Tales arrives as a PDF four times a year — what's happening across the chapters.
Both come with membership. The magazine archive runs to every issue since 2008. Back volumes of the journal are available for purchase by members at the SAPFM store.
See the publications →All chapter access. The annual journal mailed in December. Pins & Tales quarterly. Forum and member directory. Conference at member rate.
Join individualAll individual benefits, plus a Business Directory listing — promote your work to about a thousand SAPFM members and the broader period-furniture community.
Join businessSAPFM is a 501(c)(3) educational organization. Dues fund the publications, the Conference, chapter activity, the Cartouche Award, and educational programs.
About a thousand makers, in twenty-two chapters, talking through the work.
