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    Furniture Design & Construction: Classic Projects & Lessons of the Craft

    By Graham Blackburn

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    While Furniture Design & Construction is a project book for woodworkers who enjoy working with hand-tools, it goes beyond traditional woodworking manuals to teach design concepts through carefully selected, hands-on pieces. This book is for the woodworker who is not content merely to build from preset plans; instead, it offers projects that will show how the designs originate and take shape, giving the maker the freedom to build anything, with or without plans. The book presents a dozen different pieces of furniture, each illustrated with detailed line drawings. Every project exemplifies a different lesson in design - making the book a self-teaching course in woodworking and furniture design for amateurs and experienced woodworkers alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpring House Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781940611167
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    Furniture Design & Construction: Classic Projects & Lessons of the Craft
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    Graham Blackburn

    Graham Blackburn was born and educated in London, England, then lived for several years in Cologne and Madrid before moving to New York to continue his studies at the Juilliard School. While pursuing a career as a professional musician that saw him play in numerous bands, including Van Morrison’s, he built several homes in Woodstock, NY, including his own. His first book, Illustrated Housebuilding, was published in 1974. Since then, in addition to operating a custom furnituremaking shop in California and New York, and lecturing and teaching at major craft and art schools and woodworking shows across the US, he has been a long-time columnist for Popular Woodworking and a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking. He has also served as editor-in-chief of Woodwork magazine.

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    • 4/5
      A very sound furniture design book with basics for anyone who's getting into the craft, and then some more particular examples as well.

      But I don't think any proofreading has been done on this title. The spelling errors (with a weird tendency towards omission of the letter "T") are quite distracting. Before picking up this title, see if the grammar issues don't irk you too much.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      A very good book indeed, and one that goes from some design theory mostly based on the Golden ratio rule and Fibonacci series to some basic historic style overview and discussion of several pieces made by the author. Illustrations are basic, hand-drawn and black and white only which suffices for most but not all illustrative purposes. What really lets this book down, however, is the utter disregard for the concept of proofreading. The spelling is atrocious throughout. Otherwise solid content.

      1 person found this helpful