I particularly like the Skyscraper furniture of Paul Frankl, an Austrian-born Art Deco furniture designer who worked in New York City and Los Angeles.  The first piece is a copy of the Skyscraper Step Table made by Frankl in the late 1920s and currently in the Decorative Arts collection at the Brooklyn Museum.  I had only the photos and overall dimensions from their website to complete my design.  The piece is made from painted poplar and the joinery is dowels.

The second piece is a large bookshelf I made for myself in the same style.  It's made from maple plywood with shop-made solid maple edge banding.  The finish is a hand-applied water-based urethane.