A Guide to Good Design

Covers how solid softwood becomes furniture, from designing and drawing through machining, joints, gluing and surface treatment. Written with production in mind, with a full chapter on designing for disassembly and repair.

Bjorn Nordin

A classic handbook on building cabinet furniture, covering tools, joints, veneering and setting out work, plus a survey of how furniture design developed. Detailed enough to work from at the bench.

David Denning

Combines essays on furniture history, taste in design, color and materials with hundreds of shop recipes for staining, varnishing, polishing and gilding. Illustrated with more than 200 drawings.

Fred T. Hodgson