Must Have Books

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 me, feel free to crib it for yourself, may your bookcases hold up.

Design

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