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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 239895, member: 29&quot;]Um. No. </p><p><br /></p><p>Fruska Gora beech forests for one thing. Mixed oak and beech. Yigoslavian beech being a specific variant of European Beech: <a href="http://palmertimber.com/content/hardwood/european-hardwoods/european-beech" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://palmertimber.com/content/hardwood/european-hardwoods/european-beech" rel="nofollow">http://palmertimber.com/content/hardwood/european-hardwoods/european-beech</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yugoslavia (former)&nbsp; is in the Northern Temperate zone. Coast is Med, but the mountains and other regions vary widely. So hardwoods grow rather well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Good article here about Bosnian furniture makers: Oak and beech. Massive industry then, still not bad. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/13/business/yugoslav-furniture-problems.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/13/business/yugoslav-furniture-problems.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/13/business/yugoslav-furniture-problems.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a lot of (former) Yugoslav beech furniture out there. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the same beech species as Ercol use for their furniture, and they, of course, originated in Ercolani, near Naples, then came to High Wycombe. This chair is very like some of their stuff, although they&#039;ve never done a back like that. Their chairs don&#039;t come apart, but they are pegged like this. Lovely chair, that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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