New York: Thames & Hudson, 2015. — 276 p. Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture. The book features the work of a rising generation of designers across the globe who are starting to think about furniture in an architectural way, resulting in pieces that...
Laurence King Publishing, 2013. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-1780671208. Furniture Design is a comprehensive guide and resource for students and furniture designers. As well as discussing pioneering contemporary and historical designs, it also provides substantive answers to designers' questions about function, materials, manufacture and sustainability, integrating guidance on all of...
Storey Publishing, 2015. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-1612123035. Build stylish and functional furniture from salvaged materials. This innovative guide presents dozens of strategies for upcycling scrap cardboard, metal, plastic, or wood into dependable shelving units, sturdy tables, and fun lamps. With directions for 35 easy and inexpensive projects that include a Cardboard Cantilever...
Cham; Heidelberg; New York; Dordrecht; London: Springer, 2015. — X, 649 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-19532-2; ISBN: 978-3-319-19533-9 (eBook). Maximizing reader insights into the principles of designing furniture as wooden structures, this book discusses issues related to the history of furniture structures, their classification and characteristics, ergonomic approaches to...
2nd Edition. — Wiley, 2012. — 434 p. — ISBN: 1118090780. The comprehensive guide to furniture design — expanded and updated Furniture designers draw on a range of knowledge and disciplines to create their work. From history to theory to technology, Furniture Design offers a comprehensive survey of the essential craft- and practice-related aspects of furniture design. Generously...
Conran Octopus Ltd, 2009. 112 p. — ISBN: 978184091 5042. It would be possible to trace the history of design in the past 150 years simply through a sequence of chairs. At the very beginning the story would trace the work of the Austrian company Thonet, whose transformation of furniture-making into an industrial process through the abolition of craft skills could be taken as...
Second Edition. Wiley, 2012. — 434 p. — ISBN: 1118090780. The comprehensive guide to furniture design — expanded and updated Furniture designers draw on a range of knowledge and disciplines to create their work. From history to theory to technology, Furniture Design offers a comprehensive survey of the essential craft- and practice-related aspects of furniture design....
Rockport, 2008. — 209 p. Furniture design is a complex art. Traditionally, techniques of the craft have been passed down from master to apprentice, but these days that is less and less the case in contemporary design. Students are now required to take courses and figure out much of it themselves. This book, as with others in the Design Secrets series, takes readers into the...
Truslove, Hanson Comba, Ltd. 1893. — 322 p. In the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time. A careful selection of illustrations has been made from examples of established authenticity, the...
Dorling Kindersley, 2010. — 560 p. — ISBN: 1-4053-0654-8. A glorious encyclopedia from expert Judith Miller, showcasing more than 3,000 years of design. From primitive pieces to elegant modernity, this definitive guide illustrates every style and form, with tips on how to recognize the key elements of each period. Featuring lavish, full-colour photographs throughout. Foreword...
Virginia Press, 1974. — 336 c. Eighteenth century Boston furniture. Boston furniture of the eighteenth century has long interested informed collectors and students of furniture history. Yet, no book has been devoted to the subject. While catalogues and scholarly works have appeared on the eighteenth-century furniture of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New...
Colonial Williamsburg, 1994. — 220 p. This is a fascinating and truly readable analysis of the importance of the several Williamsburg cabinet making shops and the role they played in the furnishing of homes of eastern Virginia. Williamsburg was far more important a center of influence in the decorative arts, as it was in other areas, than it has been given credit for, and this...
Crown, 1976. — 146 p. The product of maste r craftsmen-"artists in their trade"-American Chippendale furnitu re represents perhaps the highest form of creative endeavor in colonial America. The 151 pieces illustrated in this guide are a careful sampling of Chippendale furniture (1755-1790) from New York, Philadelphia, and the South.