Lost Art Press

Lost Art Press Teaching woodworking techniques through publication of quality books and videos He is now a contributing editor to that magazine. Ever. Just like you.

Founded in 2007, Lost Art Press is a small Midwestern publishing company that seeks to help the modern woodworker learn traditional hand-tool skills. Since World War II, traditional and effective hand skills have disappeared from the home, professional and school woodshops in North America. Those quickly disappearing hand skills have been replaced by a reliance on machine work, even when it is les

s effective, slower or sloppier. The founders of Lost Art Press – Christopher Schwarz and John Hoffman – are trying to restore the balance between hand and machine work by unearthing the so-called "lost arts" of hand skills and explaining how they can be integrated with the machinery in the modern shop to help produce furniture that is crisp, well-proportioned, stout and quickly made. Christopher Schwarz is the former editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, where he worked between 1996 and 2011. Chris lives in Northern Kentucky. John Hoffman is an enthusiastic home woodworker and lives outside Indianapolis. We pride ourselves on being a company that you can trust. We will never sell or share your personal information with anyone else. We do not accept gifts of free tools from manufacturers or catalogers. When we recommend a tool – in our books or on our blog – we have paid full retail for it.

Furniture at Liberty & Co. in London. Fantastic stuff in an amazing building.
07/20/2025

Furniture at Liberty & Co. in London.

Fantastic stuff in an amazing building.

Nick shows how he makes amazing fresh milk paint from quark, water, lime and pigment. Cheap. Incredibly nice to use. An...
07/18/2025

Nick shows how he makes amazing fresh milk paint from quark, water, lime and pigment. Cheap. Incredibly nice to use. And durable.

Book forthcoming from Lost Art Press.

Two weeks in Germany. Two green stick chairs. This one is painted with homemade milk paint mixed up this morning. No top...
07/18/2025

Two weeks in Germany. Two green stick chairs. This one is painted with homemade milk paint mixed up this morning. No topcoat. None is necessary.

More details on the paint (and a book) soon.

I’ll be back next summer for two weeks of chairmaking with students.

Many thanks to Peter Lanz, Heiko Pulcher, Mattias and Wolfgang for making this trip possible. And special thanks to who assisted my class in Munich.

Go overseas. Make friends. Don’t drink too much beer.
07/16/2025

Go overseas. Make friends. Don’t drink too much beer.

Irish armchair class. German workshop. Kentucky instructor.Students from the US, Italy, Austria, Mexico, Germany and el...
07/15/2025

Irish armchair class.
German workshop.
Kentucky instructor.
Students from the US, Italy, Austria, Mexico, Germany and elsewhere.

The new Shaker exhibit is excellent. The exhibit is coming to the US later this year.
07/14/2025

The new Shaker exhibit is excellent. The exhibit is coming to the US later this year.

Chair No. 12 of 2025. Made with a class of great people. Chair has three coats of milk paint. Now to Vitra. Then Munich...
07/11/2025

Chair No. 12 of 2025. Made with a class of great people. Chair has three coats of milk paint. Now to Vitra. Then Munich. Then Lincolnshire. Then….

And that’s a wrap on The Slab build video with 🎉🍻🥂
07/10/2025

And that’s a wrap on The Slab build video with 🎉🍻🥂

There a 50 percent chance of Chair today (and a 50 percent chance of Firewood).
07/10/2025

There a 50 percent chance of Chair today (and a 50 percent chance of Firewood).

No trip to Bavaria is complete without a visit to in Plattling. Probably the nicest woodworking shop I’ve ever been to.
07/09/2025

No trip to Bavaria is complete without a visit to in Plattling. Probably the nicest woodworking shop I’ve ever been to.

Rosenheim’s city symbol (a rose) expressed in nails.
07/09/2025

Rosenheim’s city symbol (a rose) expressed in nails.

Few things make me as happy as an open-air museum on a Sunday afternoon.
07/08/2025

Few things make me as happy as an open-air museum on a Sunday afternoon.

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