Furniture Design

Covers architecture and design throughout history in India, China, Turkey, Nigeria, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. Available through Fairchild Books ID Library (login required).

Covers interior design, architecture, and decorative arts throughout history and around the world. Available through Fairchild Books ID Library (login required).

Covers period styles from the 17th century to the present day. Available through Fairchild Books ID Library (login required).

Explores global interior environments and architecture, explaining significant design styles and movements from the mid-19th century to the present day. Examines how and why interior environments and architecture develop, including the impact of cultural and political events. Available through Fairchild Books ID Library (login required).

The essays consider both handcrafted and serially produced objects from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, including a japanned high chest from colonial Boston, German and Austrian Artistic Dress, Tiffany lamps, the architecture of the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels in Paris, and the “dream homes” portrayed in two popular postwar American films. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides a guide to Art Deco research in five sections based on key concepts: migration, public culture, fashion, politics, and Art Deco's afterlife in heritage restoration and new media. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Includes images of art, architecture, fashion, and more. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Black and white line drawings and photographs of traditional American chairs. Includes insight into chair construction and design. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the means by which the Shakers have been "promoted" during the course of the last century by scholars and museum academics in order to establish a "national" style, illustrating how the Shaker style has entered the general design consciousness and in doing so has become a generic style largely divorced from the original Shaker aesthetic. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Black and white photographs of 19th century benches in a variety of styles, with line drawings of construction details. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides an in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home. Though the essays mainly take an art historical approach, the book is interdisciplinary in that it considers the social implications of domestic objects for family members of different genders, age, and rank, as well as for visitors to the home. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines three areas related luxury and taste in in a wide variety of early modern European contexts: luxury goods as displays of status, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury, and the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores how and why industrial design emerged as a primary site for fronting a new West German cultural order after World War II, focusing on everyday household objects -- lamps, china, glassware, consumer electronics, and furniture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space, with case studies on designed spaces and objects. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

An illustrated introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victorian England. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

German design and architecture reflects the country’s rich and fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic philosophy. Jeremy Aynsley now offers an in-depth study of this relationship between German history and design since 1870 and the complex principles underlying it. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides a history of Hungarian architecture in the 19th century, including Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Historicism. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Presents an intertwined history of modernism across the region between 1890 and 1970. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the common forms of furniture used in ancient Egypt. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Part two of a survey of Egyptian furniture-making techniques with a study of boxes, chests and footstools. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

This interdisciplinary journal is dedicated to advancing knowledge of furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present. Most articles are available for free online.

Focuses on French ébénisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating from 1735 to 1760. Full text available for free from the publisher (open access).

Covers the styles, movements, and the influence of international, political, and social developments on interior design, interior architecture, furniture, and decorative arts.

Examines the legacy of eight World's Fairs and Exhibitions, from London in 1851 to London in 2008, and their lasting impact on design.

Offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the turn of the twenty-first century.

This remarkable history of late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century France introduces the age when comfort became a new ideal. Home life, formerly characterized by stiff formality, was forever altered by the simultaneous introduction of the sofa, the original living rooms, and the very concept of private bedrooms and bathrooms, with far-reaching effects on the way people lived and related to one another.

Features sculpture, textiles, furniture, jewelry, and other artworks from West and Central Africa

Explores the defining features, historical influences, and most important designers and cabinetmakers of Danish modern furniture.

Features Georgian tables, seating, case goods, and other furniture, with color photographs, line drawings and details

Features seven hundred exceptional works of art - portraits, sculptures, furniture, porcelain, silver and gold, costumes and jewellery - taken from royal collections and prestigious institutions, that illuminate the lives, roles, and passions of these individuals and couples, as well as their time and accomplishments in the fields of the arts, history and science.

Traces the evolution of the Neoclassical style in Sweden, placing it in its wider European context, and explores the history of each building. Plans, and original drawings by the architects and designers, complete the picture.

Showcases 80 eclectic masterpieces, acquired and used by rulers of power, wealth, and taste, that tell the story of princely patronage, courtly rivalry and masterly workmanship. Each object is contextualized in one of five thematic sections that highlight an important facet of the European courts: princely patronage; the importance of war; the role of religion; the peaceful arts of the domestic interior and the splendour of personal adornment.

Spanning the period from the 1950s to the 1980s and beyond, and with international coverage, the book identifies the designers, manufacturers, brands, innovations, technologies and materials that transformed the world during the period of mid-century modern and still cast their magic spell.

Examines the influence of Surrealism on the wider fields of design and the decorative arts, including jewelry, ceramics, textiles, furniture, fashion, film and photography.

Provides a visual and technical history of the office chair, from the beginning of the 1840s -- a period that saw the origins of modern business management -- to the 21st century.

Features art, architecture, furniture, textiles, and other decorative arts, with color photographs

Showcases late 17th- and 18th-century French furniture from Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical periods, with color photographs