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Designing Furniture covers every step in the design process from inspiration to construction strategy, including learning from established styles, creating plans for unique furniture, and choosing among construction options. The practical, process-oriented approach makes the subject accessible to woodworkers with no formal design training.
Very Helpful in preventing mistakesReviewed by Thomas( Doc Savage 45), 2009-08-05
Other reviewers have described the content of the book, the
excellence of the pictures and that some parts are dry to
them.
For me, I am prone to "make mistakes" and with guidance I may make
fewer.
What I appreciate about all the articles is learning from a
person/master in his/her craft, about methods they have evolved to
design furniture.
For me, it is complex, and this helps simplify it.
Mostly it is about developing good work habits, making fewer
mistakes and ideas. Some woodworkers copy others and learn from the
assembly. Some make prototypes and modify the next one. Model
building and miniatures may not be as much fun, but wastes less
material, gives three dimentional perspective and lets the
designing process be more fluid.
Do you draw? What happened to that great idea? What idea?
Suggestions help me to use my strengths in a better way.
Would have given this a five star but I tend to read the reviews
about what isn't right.
For me it is a great handbook to model my designing. Have started
my idea book and figuring out where to put the cardboad, and
modeling materials!
Missing somethingReviewed by Dick Johnson, 2008-11-01
I just about decided to skip writing a review on this. While there
is interesting and practical information; it just didn't seem to
really come together. Most of the Fine Woodworking books are
compilations of disjointed articles about a subject, and I usually
like them a lot.
This book is also a compilation but the title would have you
believe they had added material to join the articles together into
a continuous study of the subject. The result is somewhat
disjointed and incomplete.
The value of some of the material is the reason for the four stars
overall.
Designing Furniture (New Best of Fine Woodworking)Reviewed by Randy Fratzke, 2007-03-31
The book is Fine but I bought it as a package deal with it's companion book (Practical Design Solutions and Strategies) and many of the areas are identcal - right down to the photographs a furniture pieces used. The information is good and is useful - clear and concise.
Much of the book is interesting but not essentialReviewed by C. Farmer, 2006-03-05
The first have of the book is spent going over the history of furniture and how to draw up your designs for furniture. It even goes so far as to tell you how to make your own drafting table. I found the first have fairly uninformative and dry. The rest of the book does a decent job of describing furniture design.
Nice collection of articles...Reviewed by SoulCatcher, 2005-07-06
As with most books from Taunton of this type, this contains
articles from Fine Woodworking(It's another "Best Of"
series).
The articles are informative and the images are good. It provides
some good information on design elements in furniture. Though not
inclusive of all areas, it provides good information and many
areas.
