John Kelsey

John Kelsey has spent 50 years writing and editing books and maga­zines about wood­work­ing and furni­ture design. But in the 1970s Kelsey almost became a furni­ture maker instead, until his skills as a news­pa­per jour­nal­ist pushed him back into publish­ing, to special­ize in unexplored terrain.

“In the begin­ning every­thing we wrote about was new, we could open windows for wood­work­ers every­where,” Kelsey recalls of his eight years as Fine Wood­work­ing magazine’s first editor in chief. ​“We were riding a cultural moment, there was huge inter­est in crafts.”

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