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Show Furniture Items Combine Beauty With Long Life Combining beauty with the qualities quali-ties of permanence and strength, hardwood veneer represents the highest standards of craftsmanship in the manufacture of fine furniture. furni-ture. Many of the unusual wood patterns pat-terns to be found in modern furniture fur-niture could not be produced except ex-cept through the fabrication of hardwood plywood and face veneers. ve-neers. Wherever wide surfaces are used, either flat or curved, hardwood plywood construction gives the most satisfactory results both in attractiveness of the wood grain and durability. Apparently some people have the mistaken idea that hardwood veneer ve-neer furniture is inferior in quality. qual-ity. The truth is that wood veneers ve-neers are unsurpassed in beauty, strength and stability. Croth, burl and stump wood which provide the most beautiful wood figures could not be utilized otherwise because be-cause of a tendency to crack and split if used as solid pieces. Applied Ap-plied in the form of thin face veneers on hardwood plywood panels, these fine grains can be utilized to the utmost without splitting or chipping at corners and edges. This explains why 75 percent of all wood furniture exhibited at leading furniture shows in Chicago, Chica-go, Grand Rapids and New York were of hardwood veneer. It also is the reason hardwood plywood is used extensively in the manufacture manu-facture of television and radio cabinets. |