Mexican Furniture

Mexican Furniture posts cover the rustic pine and mesquite pieces that fill many ranch-style homes in the Southwest, plus the colonial heirloom market. Articles look at the equipal leather-and-cedar chairs from Jalisco, the heavy carved doors with iron hardware, the typical trastero cupboard with its punched tin panels, the Saltillo tile floors that often go with the furniture, the use of recycled barn wood in modern pieces and the difference between a true Mexican-made piece and a reproduction made in China for the US market. There are also notes on care in dry climates and on dealing with cracked old pine.