HI Reg,
thank you so much for your compliments,i worked a little more with curved stuff in the past but unfortunately i don't have any pictures,but i can say that these clean proportions and lines are quite common in the swedish woodworking style,expecially in the old furniture that were a relaboration of italian and french style(the swedish barock and rococo are quite different from the french and italian for example),but with cleaner lines and without so much fuss (carving,marquetry),i actually learned my trade in a 5 year apprenticeship in a small furniture shop in Italy,we were only 2 people,me and the master,so it was easier to learn,after i moved to sweden and i did 2 years of school specialized in swedish furniture reproduction were i learned carving marquetry and woodturning,after that i did a 1 year of Traslojd school,for learning traditional swedish woodenware,the next year will be my last year of school,and i'm going to study and practicing only woodcarving(8 hours a day woodcarving for 1 year..i hope i will survive);how you can see the system in Sweden offer a great variety of choice,here the university is totally free,no money are payed for studyng,but there is no such test that you must do like in the US or Canada for become master carpenter or furnituremaker,here is mostly about high schools and university and after that you go to work and make experience,there are high schools with different branches(electrician,plumber,carpenter,concrete,furnituremaking ec..)and you can choose..i had the luck personally to work also for a short time with restoring old traditional log building,very tough work,and most of that is by hand,using axes,drawknives and so on,but my back said no..you can't..i learned anyway how to restore,making and glazing sash windows with linseed oil putty ..it is all about experience..
