Furniture: General resources

Beecher, Mary Anne, “Promoting the ‘Unit Idea’: Manufactured Kitchen Cabinets (1900-1950)”, APT Bulletin: The Journal of Preservation Technology, vol. 32, no. 2/3, 2001, pp. 27–37 (Available via Jstor) 

Campbell, Gordon, "Armoire", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2008

Cova, Elisabetta, “Cupboards, Closets, and Shelves: Storage in the Pompeian House”, Phoenix, vol. 67, no. 3/4, 2013, pp. 373–91 (Available via Jstor)

Guo, Qinghua, “The Architecture of Joinery: The Form and Construction of Rotating Sutra-Case Cabinets”, Architectural History, vol. 42, 1999, pp. 96–109 (Available via Jstor)

Mauriès, Patrick, Cabinets of Curiosities, Thames & Hudson, AM221.M38 2002

Petroski, Henry, The book on the bookshelf, Alfred A. Knopf, Z685.P48 1999 

Pyne, Lydia, Object Lessons: Bookshelf, Bloomsbury, Z685.P96 2016

Quicchelberg, Samuel, The first treatise on museums : Samuel Quiccheberg's Inscriptiones, 1565, Getty Research Institute, AM4.Q5313 2013

Taylor, J. W., "Chest", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003

Bennett, Ian (Editor), Complete illustrated rugs & carpets of the world, A & W Publishers, NK2800.C68 1977 

The Carpet & Rug Institute, advocating the carpet manufacturing industry 

Hali, covering antique carpets, textiles and Islamic art 

International Conference on Oriental Carpets

Jozan: Oriental rug news

Noever, Peter (Editor), Knots: symmetric-asymmetric : the MAK's historical oriental carpet and film inserts of the present, MAK, NK2871.A932 2003 

Roberts, Margaret, & Jennifer Wearden, "Carpet", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003 

Rug Insider, news for the rug and carpet design industry

Thompson, Jon, Carpet Magic : the art of carpets from the tents, cottages, and workshops of Asia, Barbican Art Gallery, NK2808.T57 1983

Train, John, Oriental Rug Symbols, Philip Wilson, NK2808.T73 1997 

Abbott, Mike, Going with the grain : making chairs in the 21^st century, Living Wood Books, TT197.5.C45 A23 2011 

Antonelli, Paola, Sitting on the edge : modernist design from the collection of Michael & Gabrielle Boyd, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NK2715.S56 1998

Bishop, Karen, et  al., “An 18th-Century Armchair in Focus”, August 17, 2021, getty.edu

Bocola, Sandro, African Seats, Prestel, NK2715.A3613 1995 

Buchwald, Hans H., Form from process; the Thornet chair, The President and Fellows of Harvard University, NK2715.F67 1967

Cooper, William, "The Sofa," Book 1 of The Task (1785) 

Eaton, Timonthy A. (Editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: the seat of genius chairs 1895-1955, Eaton Fine Art, Inc., NK2439.W76A4 1997

Friedrichs, Arnd & Kerstin Finger, The infamous chair : 220° C virus monobloc, Gestalten, NK2715.I64 2010 

Guarnaccia, Matteo, Cross cultural chairs : 8 chairs from 8 countries : diversifying modern seating, 2^nd edition, Set  Margins, NK2715.G83 2023

Henig, Martin, et al., "Chair", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003 

Kalman, Tibor, Chairman : Rolf Fehlbaum, Lars Müller Publishers, NK2715.K35 1997 

Kravis, Nathan, On the Couch : A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud, MIT Press, 2017 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Orrom, James, Chair anatomy : design and construction, Revised edition, Thames & Hudson, NK2715.O77 2023 

Russell, Frank, A Century of chair design, Rizzoli, NK2715.C4 1980

Savrinaki, Maria, “The African Chair or the Charismatic Object”, Grey Room, no. 41, 2010, pp. 88–110 (Available via Jstor)

"La sedia moderna," Domus, September 1988 (Special issue) 

Thornton, Peter, "Upholstery", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003 

Abercrombie, Stanley, "Office supplies: evolving furniture for the evolving workplace", in On the job : design and the American office, Donald Albrecht & Chrysanthe B. Broikos (Editors), Princeton Architectural Press, NK2195.O4O5 2000

Brandes, Uta, & Michael Erlhoff (Editors), My Desk Is My Castle : Exploring Personalization Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, 2011 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)  

Campbell, Gordon, "Escritoire", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2008

Limon, Elise, "Desk job: a short study of the surfaces on which we toil", Architectural Review, June 18, 2020 

List of desk forms and types, Wikipedia, 2024 

Taylor, J. W., "Bureau”, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003 

"Working Design: The Evolution of the Desk", Bbys Magazine, December 21, 2022

Adlin, Jane, Vanities : art of the dressing table, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013 

Campbell, Gordon. "Dressing table", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2008 

Harman, Graham, The Third Table, Hatje Cantz, B829.5.H372 2012

McCann, Sarah More, "Why shape matters in conference rooms: Tables take a variety of forms. But which one works best in the boardroom?" The Christian Science Monitor, July 28, 2008

Pryke, Sebastian, "Table", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003

"Tables," Abitare, January 1991 (Special issue) 

Weems, Carrie Mae, Kitchen table series, 2nd edition, MW Editions, TR647.W383 2022

Clark, Caroline, et al., "Tapestry", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2022

Eggler, Marianne, “Divide and Conquer: Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe and Lilly Reich’s Fabric Partitions at the Tugendhat House”, Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 16, no. 2, 2009, pp. 66–90 (Available via Jstor)

“Liminal fabrics: Byzantine and Early Islamic Furnishing Textiles” special issue of Dumbarton Oaks Papers,
Vol. 73, 2019 (Available via Jstor)

Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast, “Form, Function, and Meaning in the Use of Fabric Furnishings: A Philadelphia Case Study, 1700-1775”, Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp. 25–40 (Available via Jstor)

Smith, T’Ai, “Limits of the Tactile and the Optical: Bauhaus Fabric in the Frame of Photography”, Grey Room, no. 25, 2006, pp. 6–31 (Available via Jstor)

Standen, Edith Appleton, “Renaissance to Modern Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 4, 1987, pp. 1–56 (Available via Jstor)

Hamilton, Jean, An introduction to wallpaper, Victoria & Albert Museum, NK3395 .H35 1983

Hawksley, Lucinda, Bitten by witch fever : wallpaper & arsenic in the Victorian home, Thames & Hudson, NK3400.H39 2016

Nouvel-Kammerer, Odile (Editor), French scenic wallpaper, 1790-1865, Flammarion, NK3449.A1P2913 2000

Taylor, Clare, & Gill Saunders, "Wallpaper", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2019

Teynac, Françoise, et al., Wallpaper, a history, Rizzoli, NK3400.T4913 1982

Billcliffe, Roger, Mackintosh Furniture, Dutton, NK2542.M3 B54 1985 

Bloom Hiesinger, Katheryn (Editor), Art Nouveau in Munich: masters of Jugendstil from the Stadtmuseum, Munich, and other private collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art, N6886.M9A86 1988

Borsi, Franco, Paris 1900: architecture and design, Rizzoli, N6850.B6713 1978

Lavallée, Michèle, "Art Nouveau", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003

Levy, Mervyn, Liberty style : the classic years, 1898-1910, Rizzoli, NK1535.L67L48 1986 

Selz, Peter & Mildred Constantine, Art nouveau : art and design at the turn of the century, Museum of Modern Art, N6490.S37

Silverman, Debora L., “Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism”, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 2011-3 (Available via Jstor) Part 1 (2011); Part 2 (2012); Part 3 (2013)

Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph, Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956 : progress through beauty : the guide to his oeuvre, Birkhäuser, NK946.H63A4 2021 

Waddell, Roberta, The Art nouveau style in jewelry, metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles, architecture, and furniture, Dover Publications, NK1380.A76 1977

Andersen, Timothy J., et al. (Editors), California design 1910, California Design Publications, NA730.C2A5

Burke, Doreen Bolger, In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans & the Aesthetic Movement, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N6510.5.E2513 1986

Cathers, David & Susan J. Montgomery, "So various are the forms it assumes": American arts & crafts furniture from the Two Red Roses Foundation, NK2407.T89 2014

Kaplan, Wendy, The Art That Is Life: The Arts & Craft Movement in America, 1875-1920, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, NK1141 K37 1987 

Makinson, Randell L., Greene & Greene: Furniture and related designs, Gibbs Smith, NA737.G73 M33 v. 2

Sanders, Barry, A complex fate : Gustav Stickley and the Craftsman Movement, John Wiley, N6537.S74S26 1996

Schwartzman, Arnold, Arts & crafts : from William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright, Palazzo, NA642.S39 2021

Stickley, Gustav (Editor), Craftsman bungalows : 59 homes from the Craftsman, Dover Publications, NA7571.C76 1988

Winter, Robert (Editor), Toward a simpler way of life : the arts & crafts architects of California, University of California Press, NA730.C2T68 1997

Bergdoll, Barry & Leah Dickerman, Bauhaus 1919-1933 : workshops for modernity, Museum of Modern Art, N332. G33B42455 2009

Brejzek, Thea, et al. (Editors), Bauhaus x IKEA : legacies of modernism, Uro Publications, HD9773.S84B38 2022

Oswalt, Philipp, Bauhaus brand 1919-2019 : the victory of iconic form over use,Scheidegger & Spiess, N332.G3O8913 2020

Pedretti, Bruno, Posthumous works designed while living : Metallwerkstatt Bauhaus 20's/90's, Alessi, NK6450.A1O63 1995

Smith, T'ai, Bauhaus Weaving Theory : From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design, University of Minnesota Press, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Weltge-Wortmann, Sigrid, Women's work : textile art from the Bauhaus, Chronicle Books, NK8950.B47W46 1993

Wilk, Christopher, Marcel Breuer, furniture and interiors, Museum of Modern Art, NK2439.B7W5 1981

Wingler, Hans M., The Bauhaus : Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago, MIT Press, N332.B38W513 1978

Ambler, Frances, Mid-century modern : icons of design, Thames & Hudson, NK1175 .A45 2018

Barsac, Jacques, Charlotte Perriand : complete works, Scheidegger & Spiess, NK2049.Z9 P472x (volumes 1-3) 

Betts, Paul, “Science, semiotics and society: the Ulm Hochschule fur Gestaltung in retrospect,” Design Issues, Summer, 1998, p. 67-82 (PDF via Jstor)

Bradbury, Dominic, Mid-century modern complete, Abrams, NK1390.B73 2014

Caplan, Ralph, The Design of Herman Miller, Whitney Library of Design, TS880.C36 1976

Drijver, Peter & Johannes Niemeijer, How to construct Rietveld furniture, Thoth, N2570.R43D7 2001 

Gerrit Th. Rietveld, 1888-1964 : the complete works, Centraal Museum, NA1153.R5A4 1992 

Gilpin, George, Object Chandigarh, Wilco Art Books, NK2648.C44 .G46 2023

Greenberg, Cara, Mid-century modern: furniture of the 1950's, Harmony Books, TS885.G681 1984 

Hanks, David A., The decorative designs of Frank Lloyd Wright, Dutton, NK1535.W74H36 1979 

Hanks, David A. et al., High Styles: 20^th Century American Design, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985 NK1404.H53 1986

Jackson, Lesley, The Sixties: a decade of design revolution, Phaidon, NK1390.J32 1998

Lindberger, Herbert, et al., Ulm Design; the Morality of Objects, MIT Press, NK430.G4H57813 1990

Modernist 20 : modernists design from the collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd, Wright, NK2715.M62 2003

Pitiot, Cloé & Nina Stritzler-​Levine (Editors), Eileen Gray, Bard Graduate Center, NK1535.G68A4 2020 

Quinn, Bradley, Mid-century modern: interiors, furniture, design details, Conran Octopus, NK2395 .Q85 2004

Rüegg, Arthur, Le Corbusier : furniture and interiors 1905-1965, Scheidegger & Spiess, NK2550.J36 A4 2012  

Santos, Maria Cecília Loschiavo dos, Móvel moderno no Brasil = Modern furniture in Brazil, Senac, NK2498.S36 2017

Shapira, Nathan, Design process: Olivetti, 1908-1978, Olivetti, TS79.F73 1979

Steierhoffer, Eszter & Justin McGuirk, Home futures : living in yesterday's tomorrow, Design Museum Publishing, NA7125.H66 2018 

Von Vegesack, Alexander & Matthias Kries, Mies van der Rohe : architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno, Vitra Design Museum, NK2397.M65A4 1998

Wilson, Kristina, Mid-century modernism and the American body : race, gender, and the politics of power in design, Princeton University Press, NK1404 .W557 2021

DESIGN FAIRS

International Contemporary Furniture Fair, every May at the Javits Center since 1989

Los Angeles Design Weekend, first held December 2024 

NeoCon, every June at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, since 1969

Salone del Mobile / Milan Design Week, every April since 1961

WestEdge Design Fair, every Fall at the Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, since 2013  

MAGAZINES 

Abitare (print copies available  in the Kappe  Library from 1968)

Domus (print copies available  in the Kappe  Library from 1960)

Frame (print copies available  in the Kappe  Library from 2004)

Furniture Today, since 1976

Furniture World 

Interior design (print copies available  in the Kappe  Library from 1978)

LARGE MANUFACTURERS & RETAILERS

9 to 5 Seating - Ashley Furniture Industries - Best Home Furnishings - Bernhardt Furniture - BoConcept - Boke Furniture - Calligaris - Colombini Casa - Daniels Amish - Design within Reach - England Furniture - Ethan Allen - Friul Intagli - Herman Miller - Hickorycraft Furniture - HNI - Ikea - Knoll - La-Z-Boy - Linge Roset - Mavin - Molteni & C  - Okamura - QuanU - Poltrona Frau -  RedApple - Restoration Hardware - Roche Bobois - Rooms To Go - Sherrill Furniture - Smith Brothers of Berne  - Steelcase - Stickley - Vaughan-Bassett - Vitra - Williams-Sonoma

Blauvelt, Andrew, Hippie modernism: the struggle for utopia, Walker Art Center, NX456.5.M64H57 2015  

Brand, Stuart, The Whole Earth Epilog, Penguin, TS199.W49 [1974]

Buck-Morss, Susan, Ground control: technology and utopia, Black Dog, N72.T4B83 1997 

Emery, Olivia H., Craftsman lifestyle : the gentle revolution, California Design Publications, NK835.C2C70

Kahn, Lloyd, Shelter, Shelter Publications, NA7110.S53 [1973]

Kahn, Lloyd, Shelter II, Shelter Publications, TH4812.S53 [1978]

Leckie, Jim, et al., More Other homes and garbage: designs for self-sufficient living, San Francisco Sierra Club, TH4812.M67 1981 

Adamson, Glenn & Jane Pavitt (Editors), Postmodernism : style and subversion, 1970-1990, Victoria & Albert Museum, NX456.5.P66P673 2011

Ambasz, Emilio, Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, TS79 .N48 1972

Branzi, Andrea, The hot house: Italian new wave design, Thames and Hudson, NK1452.A1B73 [1984]

Collins, Michael & Andreas Papdakis, Post-Modern Design, Rizzoli, NK1396.P66C65 1989

Herwitz, Daniel, et al., "Postmodernism," Oxford Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003

Horn, Richard, Memphis, objects, furniture, & patterns, Simon & Schuster, NK1396.M46H67 1986

Radice, Barbara, Memphis: research, experiences, results, failures, and successes of new design, Rizzoli, NK1396.M46R3213 1995

Radice, Barbara, Memphis, the new international style, Electa, NK1418.R20 1981

Smith, C. Ray, Supermannerism: new attitudes in post-modern architecture, Dutton, NA680.S56 1977

Sudjic, Deyan (Editor), From Matt Black to Memphis and back again : an anthology from Blueprint magazine, Architecture Design and Technology Press, N6490.F73 1989

Bayard, Émile, Les Styles Régence et Louis XV : L'art de reconnaître les styles, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2016 (Available via ProQuest  Ebook Central)

Bernage, Georges, Encyclopédie médiévale d'après Viollet Le Duc, Bibliothèque de l'image, N5965.V56 1998 

Carvalho, Pedro Moura, “What Happened to the Mughal Furniture? The Role of the Imperial Workshops, the Decorative Motifs Used, and the Influence of Western Models”, Muqarnas, vol. 21, 2004, pp. 79–93 (Available via Jstor)

Gowans, Alan, Images of American living; four centuries of architecture and furniture as cultural expression, Lippincott, NA705.G66 

Handler, Sarah, Austere luminosity of Chinese classical furniture, University of California Press, NK2668 .H36 2001 

Hope, Thomas, Household furniture and interior decoration : classic style book of the Regency period, Dover Publications, NK2135.H7M8 1971 

Killen, Geoffrey, Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Oxbow Books, 2017 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)  Volume I - 4000 - 1300 BC,  Volume II - Boxes, Chests and Footstools, Volume III - Ramesside Furniture

Noever, Peter (Editor), Möbel als Trophäe = Furniture as trophy, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, NK2385.M63 2009

Riccardi-Cubitt, Monique, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2002: "Louis XIV style", "Régence style", "Louis XV style", & "Louis XVI style"

Taylor, Lonn &  Dessa Bokides, New Mexican furniture, 1600-1940 : the origins, survival, and revival of furniture making in the Hispanic Southwest, Museum of New Mexico Press, NK2435.N6T38 1987

Vedder, Alan C., Furniture of Spanish New Mexico, Sunstone Press, NK2435.N6V43

Walton, Guy, Louis XIV’s Versailles, University of Chicago Press, NA7736.V5W35 1986

Wiaissenberger, Robert (Editor), Vienna in the Biedermeier Era, Rizzoli, NX548.A1W513 1986

Williams, A. D., Spanish colonial furniture, Peregrine Smith, TT195.W54 1982

Wilson, Gillian, & Arlen Heginbotham, French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Publications, 2021 (Available via Jstor)

Wu Bruce, Grace, Chinese classical furniture, Oxford University Press, NK2668.W8 1995

Aav, Marianne, et al., Finnish modern design : utopian ideals and everyday realities, 1930-1997, Yale University Press, NK1471.F5F57 1998

Hiort, Esbjørn, Finn Juhl : furniture, architecture, applied art : a biography, Danish architectural Press, NA1455.F53J84 1990

Kellein, Thomas, Alvar & Aino Aalto : design : Collection Bischofsberger, Hatje Cantz, NK2635.F53A223 2005

Müller, Mark, Børge Mogensen : simplicity and function, Hatje Cantz, NK2586.M63M8513 2016 

Pallasmaa, Juhani (Editor), Alvar Aalto furniture, MIT Press, NK265.F53A233 1985

Poulsen, Katrine Stenum (Editor), Arne Jacobsen : designing Denmark, Yale University Press, NK1535.J33A4 2024

Taft, Maggie, The chieftain and the chair : the rise of Danish design in postwar America, University of Chicago Press, NK2585.T34 2023

Tigerman, Bobbye & Monica Obniski, Scandinavian design and the United States, 1890-1980, Los Angeles  County Museum of Art, NK979.S33 2020

Andersen, Timothy J., et al. (Editors), California design 1910, California Design Publications, NA730.C2 A5

Berns, Marla C. (Editor), The furniture of R.M. Schindler, University of California, Santa Barbara, NK2439.S35 A4 1996

Gebhard, David, Kem Weber: the moderne in southern California 1920 through 1941, University of California, Santa Barbara, NK1535.W4G4 1976   

Howard, Coy, The silhouette of feeling, SCI-Arc Press, NA737.H69 2022

Kries, Mateo & Jolanthe Kugler (Editors), Eames furniture sourcebook, Vitra Design Museum, NK2439.E2 A4 2017 

The L.A. Mart, 1933 South Broadway, DTLA

Lamprecht, Barbara, Richard Neutra : Möbel : der Körper und die Sinne = Richard Neutra : furniture : the body and senses, Wasmuth, NK2439.N48L36 2015

Littman, Brett, Greta Magnusson Grossman : furniture and lighting, The Drawing Center, NA7235.C22 G747 2008              

Makinson, Randell L., Greene & Greene: Furniture and related designs, Gibbs Smith, NA737.G73 M33 v. 2

Nakashima, Mira, Nature, form, & spirit : the life and legacy of George Nakashima, Abrams, NK2439.N353 A4 2003 

Nelson, Harold B. (Editor), The House That Sam Built : Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985, Huntington Library, NK2439 .M28 N45 2011    

Neuhart, Marilyn & John Neuhart, The story of Eames furniture, Gestalten, NK2408.N49 2010 v.1 & 2

York, Keith, Craig Ellwood : furniture, Modern San Diego, NK2435.C22 S68 2012

Fine Woodworking magazine:The Kappe Library has print issues from 1984-2007

The Furniture Society, focused on studio furniture 

Lovell, Sophie. Limited Edition : Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2009 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central) 

Nakashima, Mira, Nature, form, & spirit : the life and legacy of George Nakashima, Abrams, NK2439.N353 A4 2003

Nelson, Harold B. (Editor), The House That Sam Built : Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985, Huntington Library, NK2439 .M28 N45 2011       

Tage Frid teaches woodworking: Furnituremaking, Taunton Press, TT180.F77

Taragin, Davira S., et al., Furniture by Wendell Castle, Hudson Hills Press, NK2439.C3A4 1989

Wharton Esherick Museum, Paoli, PA 

Long, Christopher, “The Viennese Secessionsstil and Modern American Design”, Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 14, no. 2, 2007, pp. 6–44 (Available via Jstor)

Long, Christopher, “Wiener Wohnkultur: Interior Design in Vienna, 1910-1938”, Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. 5, no. 1, 1997, pp. 29–51 (Available via Jstor)

Noever, Peter (Editor), Yearning for beauty : the Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House, MAK, NK945.V53Y43 2006

Prossinger, Cynthia, "Wiener Werkstätte", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2003

Schweiger, Werner J., Wiener Werkstatte: design in Vienna, 1903-1932, Abbeville Press, NK945.V53S3813 1984

Thun-Hohenstein, Christoph, et al. (Editors), Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956 : progress through beauty : the guide to his oeuvre,  MAK, NK946.H63A4 2021

Witt-Dörring, Christian (Editor), Josef Hoffmann : interiors, 1902-1913, Prestel, NK1535.H64J67 2006

Witt-Dörring, Christian & Janis Staggs (Editors), Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932 : the luxury of beauty, Prestel, NK945.V53W54 2017

Gloag, John, A Social History of Furniture Design from BC 1300 to AD 1960, Crown Publishers, NK2270.G55 1966a

Halle, David, Inside Culture: art and class in the American home, University of Chicago Press, N72.S6H32 1993

Lupton, Ellen, Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office, Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, HQ1420 .L87 1993

Margolin, Victor (Editor), Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism, University of Chicago Press, NK1505.D47 1989

Praz, Mario, An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration: from Pompeii to Art nouveau, Thames & Hudson, NK1710.P713 1982

Armstrong, Richard, Artschwager, Richard, Whitney Museum of American Art, N653. A72A4 1988

Davies, Clare & Victoria Sung (Editors), Siah Armajani : follow this line, Walker Art Center, N6537.A667A4 2018

Domergue, Denise, Artists Design Furniture, Abrams, TS885.D68 1984

Falconer, Morgan, "Burton, Scott", Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2000

Finsten, Kurt, et al., Pardo house, Krabbesholm, N6537. P37K73 2001

Fox, Judith Hoos, Furniture, furnishings : subject and object, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, NB212 .F69 1984

Jim Isermann : fifteen, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-​Milwaukee, N6537.I73 A4 1998

Judd, Rainer, Donald Judd furniture, Judd Foundation, NK2439.J83 A4 2024

Morsiani, Paola, et al., Andrea Zittel : critical space, Prestel, N6537.Z58A4 2005

Murayama, Nina, “Furniture and Artwork as Paradoxical Counterparts in the Work of Donald Judd”, Design Issues, vol. 27, no. 3, 2011, pp. 47–59 (Available via Jstor)

Newman, Bruce M. & Alastair Duncan, Fantasy furniture, Rizzoli, NK2385.N49 1989

Viappiani, Pietro Costa, Le Mobilier Surrealiste, Bookking International, NK2399.S67C671 1993

Capella, Juli, Designed by architects in the 1980s, Rizzoli, NK2702.C3713 1988

Howard, Coy, The silhouette of feeling, SCI-Arc Press, NA737.H69 2022

Lever, Jill, Architects’designs for furniture, Rizzoli, TT196.L46 1982

Shape and Environment : furniture by American architects, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County. NK2407.S48 1982

Toromanoff, Agata, Chairs by architects, Thames & Hudson, NK2715.T67 2016

Bowe, Stephen & Peter Richmond, Selling Shaker : The Promotion of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century, Liverpool University Press, 2007 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Edwards, Twentieth-Century Furniture: Materials, Manufacture and Markets, TS880.E39 1994 

Kristoffersson, Sara, Design by IKEA : A Cultural History, Bloomsbury, 2014 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

The L.A. Mart, 1933 South Broadway, DTLA

Marshall, Patricia Phillips, & Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll, Thomas Day : Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color, University of North Carolina Press, 2010 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Walcott, Susan M., A Profile of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry : Global Restructuring, Business Expert Press, 2013 (Available via ProQuest Ebook Central)

Edwards, Clive, “Aluminium Furniture, 1886-1986: The Changing Applications and Reception of a Modern Material”, Journal of Design History, vol. 14, no. 3, 2001, pp. 207–25 (Available via Jstor)

Ngo, Dung & Eric Pfeiffer, Bent Ply : the art of plywood furniture, Princeton Architectural Press, TS843.N46 2003

Zelleke, Ghenete, et al. (Editors), Against the grain : Bentwood furniture from the collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, Art Institute of Chicago, NK2712.63 Z46 1993