Books like Furniture Design by Jim Postell

A comprehensive catalogue detailing iconic chairs from Art Nouveau to Postmodernism, pairing each model with designer biographies and historical context.

A practical guide with 30 global designs, showing how to build stylish, designer-level furniture from common hardware store materials using straightforward, step‑by‑step methods.

This book contains 20 furniture projects designed by an expert woodworker. He calls them "heirlooms" because they resemble classic pieces that often are handed down through generations in a family, and because, if they are built with care and craftsmanship, may become heirlooms in your own family. Drawing on his long experience in wood-working and his intimate knowledge of furniture styles, Tom Jones has included in this book a remarkable variety of projects which range from simple to complex. Thera are English reproductions from the Queen Anne, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton periods, furniture derived from Early American, Shaker, and Federal designs, as well as contemporary pieces that will blend with modern decor. From the standpoint of function, the variety is also great: three desks, two clocks, a wall cabinet, a coffee table, a bookcase, a child's chair, a terrarium table- to cite only a few.

"In surveying the development of furniture from antiquity to the present day, John Morley focuses on the Western traditions, but he includes the outside influences of China and Japan, India, Egypt, and Africa. His bravura analysis reveals connections between pieces of furniture, such as the direct line from antiquity to a neoclassical French commode, a Biedermeier dressing table, and a twentieth-century bois clair cocktail cabinet.".

1969 bezieht der SPIEGEL-Verlag in Hamburg ein neues Domizil; das Verlagshaus erhält eine individuelle Inneneinrichtung: Der Däne Verner Panton (1926-1998) gestaltet das Gebäude. Nur die Kantine bleibt in ihrer ganzen Pracht erhalten, sie wird auf Betreiben einer Bürgerinitiative unter Denkmalschutz gestellt und ist ab 2012 im Hamburger Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe zu sehen. Dort wird jedoch nur der orangefarbene Speisesaal aufgebaut, der rote und der violette Speiseraum sowie die Snackbar wandern ins Depot. Die Publikation dokumentiert das farbenfrohe Ensemble aus Möbeln, Lampen, Vorhängen, Wand- und Deckenbekleidung - ein einzigartiges Gesamtkunstwerk.