It’s a common misconception that just because the Amish ride around in horse drawn buggies and shun modern conveniences that their furniture is devoid of modern style. Nothing could be further from the truth!
When discussing Amish furniture, you aren’t talking about the style of the piece but rather its origins and level of quality. [...]

  In the genus known as Acer there is a group of trees that produce a distinctive wood used in high quality Amish furniture, more commonly known as the hard maple, sugar maple or just maple. Grown in many places in the Western Hemisphere, the maple tree loves cold weather. In the North the sugar maple [...]