DI Library: Furniture Design: Welcome

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This guide was created to provide students with helpful books, websites, and other resources on furniture design, including the history of furniture around the world, materials, construction methods, details, specifications, and sustainability. Navigate this guide using the topics on the left. For each type of source listed (articles, books, websites, and images and videos) you will find recommended titles.

Headrest. (19th century). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States. This image is in the public domain.

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The Atlas of Furniture Design by Mateo Kries; Jochen Eisenbrand; Henrike Büscher; Fulvio Ferrari; Otakar Mácel; Jane Pavitt; Ingeborg de Roode; Arthur Rüegg; Deyan. Sudjic; Wolf Tegethoff; Carsten Thau; et al
Call Number: NK 2350 .A85 2019 OVERSIZE
Documents over 1,700 objects by approximately 280 designers and 130 manufacturers, and features more than 2,750 images, from detailed object photographs to historical documentation such as interiors, patents, brochures and reference works in art and architecture.
American Furniture Designers:1900-2020 by Oscar P. Fitzgerald
Call Number: NK 2408 .F58 2022
Highlights the furniture produced by the 20 most important American furniture designers of the 20th and early 21st centuries plus a selection of the best-known European designers whose work is sold by Knoll International and Herman Miller.
Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer (ebook) by Christopher Natale
Designed to teach the aesthetic as well as the construction of residential furniture, this book covers the design process as it relates to furniture design, basic materials, hardware, joinery, finishes, and how pieces are constructed for a particular space. Available through Fairchild Books ID Library (login required).
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough; Michael Braungart
Call Number: TD 794.5 .M395 2002
Going beyond the “cradle to grave” mindset, McDonough insists that we consider the “cradle to cradle” lifecycle: how a product is created, used, and then recycled into something new
The Making of Design: From the First Model to the Final Product (ebook) by Gerrit Terstiege (Editor)
Takes an in-depth look at design processes, with twenty-five depictions of "the making of" products from a wide variety of industries including furniture design, transportation design, and household appliances. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

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