Bibliography of Resources for American Furniture: 1870 - 1970

Bibli­og­ra­phy of Resources for Amer­i­can Furni­ture: 1870 — 1970

Adamson, Jeremy. The Furni­ture of Sam Maloof. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2006.

Aslin, Eliz­a­beth. The Aesthetic Move­ment: Prelude to Art Nouveau. London: Fern­dale Editions, 1981.

Bascom, Mans­field. Wharton Esher­ick: the Journey of a Creative Mind. New York, NY: Abrams, 2010.

Bosley, Edward R. Greene & Greene. London: Phaidon Press, 2010.

Boyd, Virginia T., and Glenn Adamson. Contem­po­rary Studio Case Furni­ture: the inside Story. Madison, WI: Elve­hjem Museum of Art, Univer­sity of Wiscon­sin, 2002.

Cathers, David M. Furni­ture of the Amer­i­can Arts and Crafts Move­ment: Stick­ley and Roycroft Mission Oak. New York, NY: New Amer­i­can Library, 1982.

Cooke, Edward S. New Amer­i­can Furni­ture: the Second Gener­a­tion of Studio Furni­ture­mak­ers. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989.

Cooke, Edward S. The Maker’s Hand: Amer­i­can Studio Furni­ture, 1940 – 1990. Boston, MA: MFA Publi­ca­tions, 2003.

Cunning­ham, Joseph. The Artis­tic Furni­ture of Charles Rohlfs. New Haven, CT: Yale Univer­sity Press, 2009.

Eidel­berg, M. Design: 1935 – 1965. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

Fehrman, Cherie, and Kenneth Fehrman. Postwar Inte­rior Design: 1945 – 1960. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Rein­hold, 1987.

Fitzger­ald, Oscar P. Amer­i­can Furni­ture: 1650 to the Present. Lanham, NY: Rowman & Little­field, 2018.

Fitzger­ald, Oscar P. Studio Furni­ture of the Renwick Gallery, Smith­son­ian Amer­i­can Art Museum. Wash­ing­ton, DC: Smith­son­ian Amer­i­can Art Museum, 2007.

Frankl, P. T. Form and Re-Form: a Prac­ti­cal Hand­book of Modern Inte­ri­ors. New York, NY: Harper, 1930.

Frel­inghuy­sen, Alice Cooney. Artis­tic Furni­ture of the Gilded Age: New York, NY: Metro­pol­i­tan Museum of Art, 2016.

Gebhard, David. Kem Weber: the Moderne in South­ern Cali­for­nia, 1920 through 1941. Santa Barbara, CA: U Cal Art Galleries, 1969.

Giedion, S. Mech­a­niza­tion Takes Command: a Contri­bu­tion to Anony­mous History. Minneapo­lis, MN: Univer­sity of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Green­berg, Cara. Mid-Century Modern: Furni­ture of the 1950s. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

Green­halgh, Paul. Art Nouveau, 1890 – 1914. London: V&A Publi­ca­tions, 2000.

Grier, Kather­ine C. Culture & Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle-Class Iden­tity, 1850 – 1930. Wash­ing­ton D.C.: Smith­son­ian Insti­tu­tion Press, 2010.

Hanks, David A., and Donald Deskey. Donald Deskey: Deco­ra­tive Designs and Inte­ri­ors. New York, NY: Dutton, 1987.

Heinz, Thomas A., and Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright: Inte­ri­ors and Furni­ture. London: Academy Editions, 1994.

Howe, Kather­ine S. Herter Broth­ers: Furni­ture and Inte­ri­ors for a Gilded Age. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994.

Kaplan, Wendy, and Bobbye Tiger­man. Cali­for­nia Design, 1930 – 1965 Living in a Modern Way: Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County museum of art, 2011.

Kauf­mann, Edgar. Intro­duc­tions to Modern Design: What Is Modern Design and What Is Modern Inte­rior Design. New York, NY: Arno, 1969.

Kimmerle, Constance, and Glenn Adamson. Paul Evans Cross­ing Bound­aries and Craft­ing Modernism. Doylestown, PA: James A. Mich­ener Art Museum, 2014.

Kirkham, Pat, and Susan Weber. History of Design Deco­ra­tive Arts and Mate­r­ial Culture, 1400 – 2000. New York, NY: Bard Grad­u­ate Center, 2013.

Koplos, Janet, and Bruce Metcalf. Makers: a History of Amer­i­can Studio Craft. Chapel Hill, NC: Univer­sity of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Krenov, James. James Krenov, Worker in Wood. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Rein­hold Company, 1981.

Larrabee, Eric, and Massimo Vignelli. Knoll Design. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.

Lutz, Brian. Knoll: a Modernist Universe. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2010.

Madigan, Mary Jean Smith. East­lake-Influ­enced Amer­i­can Furni­ture, 1870 – 1890; Novem­ber 18, 1973-January 6, 1974, the Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 1973.

Mang, Karl. History of Modern Furni­ture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979.

Mcclaugh­erty, Martha Crabill. ​“House­hold Art: Creat­ing the Artis­tic Home, 1868 – 1893.” Winterthur Port­fo­lio 18, no. 1 (1983): 1 – 26. https://​doi​.org/​1​0​.​1​0​8​6​/​4​96115.

Nakashima, George. The Soul of the Tree: A Wood­work­er’s Reflec­tions. Tokyo: Kodan­sha Inter­na­tional, 1982.

Nakashima, Mira, and George Nakashima. Nature, Form, & Spirit: the Life and Legacy of George Nakashima. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.

Nelson, George. Prob­lems of Design. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1965.

Neuhart, John, Marilyn Neuhart, and Ray Eames. EAMES DESIGN. NEW YORK, NY: ABRAMS, 1989.

Ngo, Dung, and Eric Pfeif­fer. Bent Ply: the Art of Plywood Furni­ture. New York, NY: Prince­ton Archi­tec­tural Press, 2003.

Oster­gard, Derek, and David A Hanks. ​“Gilbert Rhode and the Evolu­tion of Modern Design.” Arts Maga­zine 56, no. 2 (October 1981): 98 – 107.

Pina, Leslie. Classic Herman Miller. Atglen, PA: Schif­fer Publish­ing, 1998.

Pye, David. The Nature and Art of Work­man­ship: David Pye, .. Cambridge: Univer­sity Press, 1968.

Ross, Phyllis. Gilbert Rohde: Modern Design for Modern Living. New Haven, CT: Yale Univer­sity Press, 2009.

Schwartz, Marvin D., Edward J. Stanek, and Douglas K. True. The Furni­ture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival: an Inquiry into the Nine­teenth-Century Furni­ture Design through a Study of the Gloria and Richard Manney Collec­tion. Edina, MN: Antiques and Books by Lise Bohm, 2000.

Stone, Michael A. Contem­po­rary Amer­i­can Wood­work­ers. Layton, UT: Gibbs M. Smith., 1986.

Taragin, Davira Spiro., and Wendell Castle. Furni­ture by Wendell Castle. Detroit, MI: Fouders Society Detroit Insti­tute of Arts, 1989.

Wilson, Kristina. Livable Modernism: Inte­rior Deco­rat­ing and Design during the Great Depres­sion. New Haven, CT: Yale Univer­sity Press, in asso­ci­a­tion with the Yale Univer­sity Art Gallery, 2004.

Wright, Mary, and Russel Wright. Mary and Russel Wright’s Guide to Easier Living. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2003.