Tudor  Shakespeare  Stuart  Occasional  Entertainment  Library Jaycee have been inspired by the beautiful oak furniture designs from the great craftsmen of Tudor and early Jacobean England. It was during the Reformation of the 16th century that power passed from the Church to the State and the tremendous skills of the craftsmen became available to decorate the homes and furnishings of a broader section of society - not just churches and palaces. The craftsmen created a whole a new industry of furniture making, little realising that their designs for elaborate carved oak furniture would be so treasured more than 400 years later. By capturing the true essence of the furniture that was born of this age, Jaycee's aim is to make masterpieces for today: furniture made to suit modern homes and lifestyles, combining the best of ancient skills and modern techniques to ensure functional furniture made to consistent high quality. Jaycee furniture is hand crafted from a combination of solid timbers and real wood veneers on modern materials. Jaycee remain faithful to many traditional construction methods - quite simply because they are the best. Mortise and tenon joints still make the most stable frames and dovetail joints are still the strongest way to construct a wooden drawer. Glazed doors are constructed using genuine leaded lights made from individual pieces of glass joined by leading strips, as they were in Tudor times before it was possible to make larger panes of glass. But most noticeable is the work of the hand woodcarvers, who re-create patterns and designs of the 16th and 17th century, which have become synonymous with the golden age of traditional English furniture, made from beautiful, enduring oak.