Furniture Design References

[Lonnie in Orlando]

I picked up a copy of Fine Woodworking's How to Design Furniture - from classic to contemporary last week. It has a number of good articles and references. For $8.99, it's a good addition to my "design" library.



>> What are some of your favorite DESIGN sources? Here are some of mine ...



Rodale's Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works
by Bill Hylton



Practical Design Solutions and Strategies: Key Advice for Sound Construction from Fine Woodworking (Essentials of Woodworking)
by Fine Woodworking Editors



Better Homes and Gardens Wood Basic Woodworking Tips and Techniques
by Better Homes and Gardens (Author), Wood Magazine (Author)
>> Woodworkers' standards for seating, tables, bookcases, kitchen cabinets near end of book.



Woodturning Design (Mike Darlow's Woodturning Series, Number 4)


Design references - web links:

Loeb Drama Center, Harvard
Three tabs:
Human Figure
Stairs and Doors
Furniture
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~loebinfo...manfigure.html

Wood Magazine - Must-have measurements for comfortable seating
(web print of seating standards in "BH&G Woodworking Tips" book pictured above)
http://www.woodmagazine.com/woodwork...table-seating/

WoodBin - Your Woodworking Resource
Project Design and Planning
Furniture Design Standards
Click on "home" for site map to see more woodworking references material
http://www.woodbin.com/ref/index.htm

Highland Woodworking math and design
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/l.../shopmath.html

Discussion and photos of QS, RS, and FS frame and panel doors
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showpost...06&postcount=1

Some of many discussions on the web of the Golden Ratio / Golden Section
http://members.fortunecity.com/petemullard/mobaing.html
http://www.woodcentral.com/articles/...cles_546.shtml

Thanks, in advance, for adding your favorite sources for design reference.

- Lonnie

[pelligrini]

I'm going to have to check out those links.

I get a lot of ideas from FWW and Shopnotes. Some of volumes of the Woodworkers Journal 'Complete Woodworker's Library' has some good stuff. Some of it isn't so good either.