Est. 1999
Craftsmanship runs in the grain.
Dedicated to craftsmanship and fine furniture making education for over twenty-five years.
Ronnie Young
Michelle Hallee Wong
Daniel Schwank
Calvin Hobbs
John Rexroad
Jay Stallman
Robert Stevenson
Dennis Zongker
Steven Lash
David Boeff
What we do
Six places the work happens.
Annual Conference
SAPFM's national gathering — several days of demonstrations, member presentations, side trips, and the presentation of the Cartouche Award.
Conference details →Local Chapters
Twenty-two regional chapters offer hands-on training, work-in-progress sessions, and visiting-maker programs through the year. The backbone of the Society.
Find your chapter →Publications
The annual American Period Furniture journal and the quarterly Pins & Tales magazine — long-form research, technique pieces, and member project write-ups.
Browse publications →Online Resources
The Members Desktop platform: searchable museum collections, video archive with chapter transcripts, reference library, and the project workbench.
Visit Members Desktop →Cartouche Award
Annual lifetime-achievement recognition for a maker whose work and contribution to the craft exemplify the highest tradition of American period furniture.
Past recipients →Community Forum
Year-round conversation between makers — questions, work-in-progress, finished pieces, sources, and the longer discussions that don’t fit a chapter meeting.
Visit the forum →The Pulse of the Society
22 chapters, coast to coast.
Founded 1999
A chance meeting at a woodworking conference.
Steve Lash and Mickey Callahan sat down at the same table at a January period-furniture conference, agreed the craft deserved a society of its own, and incorporated SAPFM within a year. Twenty-five years later, that conversation has grown into a thousand-member network of chapters, conferences, and publications.
Read our history →Make something that lasts.
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