Must Have Books
From Wayne's Dusty Box of Words
It's hard to winnow down a list of just the best books, but we're going to try right here. This list is also functioning as a sort of inventory/wish list for myself, feel free to crib it for yourself, may your bookcases hold up.
Topic | Title | Author | Publisher | Ownership | Read | Rating | Priority | Source |
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Topic | Title | Author | Publisher | Ownership | Read | Rating | Priority | Source |
Design | American Country Furniture | Nick Engler and Mary Jane Favorite | Rodale | |||||
Design | American Furniture (series 1993-Present) | edited by Luke Beckerdite | Chipstone Foundation | |||||
Design | American Furniture of the 18th Century | Jeffrey P. Greene | Taunton | |||||
Design | American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Morrison H. Heckscher | Random House | |||||
Design | American Furniture: The Federal Period | Charles F. Montgomery | Viking | |||||
Design | American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods | Joseph Downs | Bonanza | |||||
Design | The Book of Shaker Furniture | John Kassay | University of Massachusetts | |||||
Design | Chinese Domestic Furniture | Gustav Ecke | Dover | |||||
Design | The Encyclopedia of Furniture | Joseph Aronson | Crown | |||||
Design | Fine Furniture for a Lifetime | Glen D. Huey | Popular Woodworking Books | |||||
Design | Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement | David M. Cathers | Turn of the Century Editions | |||||
Design | The Furniture Masterworks of John & Thomas Seymour | Robert D. Mussey Jr | Peabody Essex Museum | |||||
Design | Furniture Treasury Vols. 1 & 2 | Wallace Nutting | Macmillan | |||||
Design | Greene & Greene: Furniture and Related Designs | Randell L. Makinson | Peregrine Smith | |||||
Design | Greene & Greene Furniture: Poems of Wood & Light | David Mathias | Popular Woodworking Books | |||||
Design | The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture | Howard Pain | Key Porter | |||||
Design | How to Build Shaker Furniture, Revised Edition | Thos. Moser | Sterling | |||||
Design | John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker | Morrison H. Heckscher | Yale University Press | |||||
Design | Mackintosh Furniture | Roger Billcliffe | Cameron & Hollis | |||||
Design | Making Antique Furniture Reproductions | Franklin H. Gottshall | Dover | |||||
Design | Making Furniture Masterpieces | Franklin H. Gottshall | Dover | |||||
Design | Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware | Ejner Handberg | Berkshire House | |||||
Design | The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American | Albert Sack | Crown | |||||
Design | Sculpted Band Saw Boxes | Lois Keener Ventura | Popular Woodworking Books | |||||
Design | Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture | Robert W. Lang (Cambium). | Cambium | |||||
Design | Southern Furniture 1680-1830 | Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | |||||
Design | Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery | Oscar P. Fitzgerald | Smithsonian |