Furniture : twentieth-century design / Penny Sparke. by Sparke, Penny

Subjects: “…Furniture History 20th century. sh2008121339…”

Furniture design : an introduction to development, materials and manufacturing / Stuart Lawson. by Lawson, Stuart (Lecturer on product design)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Exploring the content -- A survey of the development of furniture design: A cultural history of furniture design; Innovations in materials and manufacturing processes; Cité armchair by Jean Prouvé; DSR chair and DSW chair by Charles and Ray Eames; Aluminium group by Charles and Ray Eames; 606 Universal shelving system by Dieter Rams; Polypropylene chair by Robin Day; Action office system by Robert Propst and Jack Kelley; Tripp trapp chair by Peter Opsvick; Nomos desk by Norman Foster; Fantastic Plastic Elastic (FPE) chair by Ron Arad; Tom vac chair by Ron Arad; Aero bench by Alberto Lievore and Jeannette Altherr and Manel Molina; Mirra chair; Imprint chair by Johannes Foersom and Peter Hiort-Lorenzen; Currents series by Robert Reuter and Charles Rozier; Houdini chair by Stefan Diez; Diffrient world chair by Niels Diffrient; Hemp chair by Werner Aisslinger -- New furniture -- understanding innovation in contemporary furniture design: Visual language; Technical and functional innovation -- The design process -- Research for design: Researching the market; Primary research; Furniture systems that enhance communication and cooperation; The evolving nature of working at home -- Ergonomics, anthropometrics and spatial conventions: Furniture design: ergonomic and anthropometric focuses; Storage and workspace design; Seating design; Seating anthropometrics; Desks and work tables.…”
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Conservation of Furniture. by Umney, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Furniture history; Part 2: Materials; Chapter 2. Wood and wooden structures; Chapter 3. …”
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Texas furniture : the cabinetmakers and their work, 1840-1880. Volume 2 / by Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren ; foreword by Don Carleton. by Taylor, Lonn, 1940-2019

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Furniture of the Frontier: The Surviving Evidence; 1 Beds, Cribs, and Cradles; 2 Wardrobes; 3 Chests of Drawers; 4 Chairs and Stools; 5 Sofas, Settees, Benches, and Daybeds; 6 Tables and Stands; 7 Desks; 8 Cupboards; 9 Safes; 10 Miscellaneous Objects; A Checklist of Texas Cabinetmakers; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Furniture is disappearing / Gemma White. by White, Gemma

Table of Contents: “…-- This Is Love -- Friendship -- Melanie's Haphazard Technique -- Where I grew up -- The promise of future greatness -- The Kitchen Table -- Father's Breath -- Mum -- Elegy -- Photographs -- Pleasant Forgetting -- The End -- Now we are two -- Sonnet for my Lover -- Sorry Flowers -- Furniture is disappearing.…”
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Texas furniture : the cabinetmakers and their work, 1840-1880. by Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren ; foreword by Ima Hogg. by Taylor, Lonn, 1940-2019

Table of Contents: “…Mid-nineteenth-century Texas : the coast and the hinterland -- Cabinetmaking in the hinterland -- Furniture of the frontier : the surviving evidence -- Beds, cribs, and cradles -- Wardrobes -- Chests of drawers -- Chairs and stools -- Sofas, settees, benches, and day beds -- Tables and stands -- Desks -- Cupboards -- Safes -- A checklist of Texas cabinetmakers.…”
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Modern furniture : 150 years of design = Meubles modernes : 150 ans de design = Moderne Möbel : 150 Jahre Design /...

Table of Contents: “…From the Well tempered chair to the Big easy / Ron Arad -- Andrea Branzi's Animali domestici - Post-apocalyptic survival props -- Natural urban gemütlichkeit - New German design in the 1980s -- Agent provocateur - Philippe Starck's Chair Costes -- Memphis - surpassing mere representation -- White and ubiquitous - monobloc chairs -- 1979-1970: Simply Billy -- Domestic landscapes -- Ettore Sottsass Jr. and His Mobili Grigi - a tomb for modernism -- 1969-1960: An unpretentious icon - Robin Day's polyprop chair -- Arne Jacobsen - Swan & egg -- 1959-1950: Castiglioni - focusing on individual objects -- Particleboard -- 1949-1940: A thoroughly modern material - Ray and Charles Eames' plywood experiments -- 1939-1930: The history of design in a nutshell - Into a natural network -- Erich Dieckmann - nature's own steel -- 1929-1920: The cantilever chair -- Neues bauen, new forms of living, new man - furniture from the Bauhaus workshops -- The chair as a manifesto -- 1919-1900: Josef Hoffmann - Sitzmaschine -- 1899-1859: The history of art-nouveau furniture -- Michael Thonet's bentwood furniture.…”

Modern furniture : 150 years of design = Meubles modernes : 150 ans de design = Moderne Möbel : 150 Jahre Design /...

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Furniture farm going it alone as a solo proprietor / 4 Learning (Firm).

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Office furniture / by Susan S. Szenasy. by Szenasy, Susan S.

Subjects: “…Office furniture. sh 85094184…”

Federal furniture / Michael Dunbar. by Dunbar, Mike

Subjects: “…Furniture making. sh 85052569…”

Furniture Design by Jerzy Smardzewski. by Smardzewski, Jerzy

Table of Contents: “…The History of Furniture Construction -- Classification and Characteristics of Furniture -- Ergonomics of Furniture -- Introduction to Engineering Design of Furniture -- Technical Documentation -- Stiffness and Strength Analysis of Skeletal Furniture -- Stiffness and Strength Analysis of Case Furniture -- Stiffness and Strength Analysis of Upholstered Furniture.…”
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Colonial furniture / by John Gerald Shea and Paul Nolt Wenger. by Shea, John Gerald

Subjects: “…Furniture United States. sh 85052534…”

Victorian furniture. by Jervis, Simon

Subjects: “…Furniture, Victorian. sh 85052562…”

Victorian furniture / by R.W. Symonds and B.B. Whineray. by Symonds, R. W. (Robert Wemyss), 1889-1958

Subjects: “…Furniture, Victorian History. sh 85052562…”

Furniture Manufacturing A Production Engineering Approach / by Jegatheswaran Ratnasingam. by Ratnasingam, Jegatheswaran

Table of Contents: “…The furniture manufacturing industry -- Furniture Design and Innovation -- Furniture Manufacturing Systems -- Production Flow In Furniture Manufacturing -- Preparing The Furniture Parts -- Joints In Furniture.…”
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California furniture : the craft and the artistry / by W. Robert Finegan ; "Partners in progress" by Robert J. Kelly. by Finegan, W. Robert, 1927-

Subjects: “…Furniture industry and trade California History. sh 85052567…”

Classical furniture / David Linley. by Linley, David, 1961-

Subjects: “…Furniture Styles. sh 87001041…”

American furniture / John S. Bowman. by Bowman, John S.

Subjects: “…Furniture United States History. sh 85052536…”

Western furniture : 1350 to the present day in the Victoria and Albert Museum London / edited by Christopher Wilk.

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