Green Design in Maine has been doing upscale furniture using using similar assembly methods. They provide sample instructions and an assembly video on their site.

Their stuff is largely solid cherry which I assume gets around the "is it real wood argument".

The price of course reflects the solid wood construction and is probably well out of the reach of most people. But the assembly methods are very cool. I don't know of another high-end furniture maker that does anything similar.

http://www.greendesigns.com

I agree that the Dummies book is excellent. There are some additional blog entries and videos on the Fine Woodworking website that nicely complement Chopra's book and videos.

http://blogs.taunton.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?webtag=fw-designforum