Furniture Classics

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John G. Shea
Making Authentic Shaker Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics (Dover Woodworking)
This splendid book describes and illustrates in detail how the Shakers designed, built, and finished their furniture and household articles. With its detailed text as well as over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic pieces, it offers woodworkers and furniture enthusiasts a prac...
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Silke Pfersdorf
101 Design Classics: Why some ideas become true design icons and others don't, 1920 until Today
A comprehensive and entertaining overview of 100 years of design from 1920-2020: from everyday utilitarian furniture to avant-garde icons - and a look at the first real classics of the 21st century! - Insider knowledge, tops and flops: why do some ideas become real design classics and why don't othe...
$46.74
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David A. Bossert
Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for the Disney Studios
Kem Weber (1889—1960), a well-known mid-century architect, was part of the distinctive West Coast modernism movement that helped shaped the relaxed California lifestyle. He influenced California style during the mid-twentieth century with buildings architecture, interior designs and furniture, inc...
$35.00
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U.S. Forest Service
Building With Logs (Legacy Edition): A Classic Manual On Building Log Cabins, Shelters, Shacks, Lookouts, and Cabin Furniture For Forest Life (Library
A Classic Manual for Building Log Cabins, Forest Shelters, and Cabin Furniture This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Building With Logs is full of old-time tips and methods from the forest experts on how to build log cabins, shelters, houses, and buildings with the natural materials fro...
$9.99
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Shirley Jackson
Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel (Penguin Classics)
A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery" At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker ...
$17.00
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George Orwell
Fifty Essays (Essential Orwell Classics)
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable"…In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic...
$22.99
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Judith Gura
Postmodern Design Complete: Design, Furniture, Graphics, Architecture, Interiors
A comprehensive and authoritative publication on one of the most popular periods of international design, including architecture, furniture, ceramics, applied arts, graphics, and textiles Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, Postmodernism proclaimed the death of moderni...
$87.32
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Walter Kempowski
Marrow and Bone (New York Review Books Classics)
A moving, darkly funny road trip novel about World War II, returning to one's birthplace, and coming to terms with tragedy. West Germany, 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall: Jonathan Fabrizius, a middle-aged erstwhile journalist, has a comfortable existence in Hamburg, bankrolled by his...
$16.95
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William Morris
The earthly paradise, a poem (1868). By: William Morris: Epic poem (Original Classics)
The Earthly Paradise by William Morris is an epic poem. It is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from Greece and Scandinavia. It was begun in 1868 and several later volumes followed until 1870. The Earthly Paradise was generally well received by reviewers: according to o...
$13.73
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Caroline Wohlgemuth
Mid-Century Modern – Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna: Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna (Edition Angewandte)
Visionary furniture design from Vienna In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day – not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers ...
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Dung Ngo
Bent Ply: The Art of Plywood Furniture
Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding. Plywood truly fulfills that most modern of dreams: bridging the gap between tech...
$76.55
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Sandra Dachs
Mies van der Rohe: Objects and Furniture Design (Objects and Furniture Design by Architects)
Acclaimed furniture works from the Bauhaus polymath Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) is without doubt one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Equally significant, though smaller in scale, are his adventures in furniture design. Like any good architect, Mies knew that architecture and fu...
$25.49
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Charlotte Bronte
Villette (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Brontë's crowning achievement With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villet...
$17.32
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Rudyard Kipling
Kim (Penguin Classics)
An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, one of Kipling's greatest works A Penguin Classic Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he liv...
$8.98
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Karen Mazurkewich
Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles—from the very best museum-quality hardwood pieces to standard softwood ...
$18.82
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Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera (Bantam Classics)
Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained audiences in ada...
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Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (Warbler Classics)
Arsène Lupin, an aristocratic thief, burst onto the scene in 1905 as the French answer to Sherlock Holmes. Stylish, rogue, and fiendishly clever, Lupin eludes the law as he concocts capers, heists, and, often, schemes to right a wrong or help the innocent. Foreshadowing such other lawless heroes as...
$10.20
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Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits: Introduced by Christopher Hitchens (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants....
$15.54
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Thomas Hardy
Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to  Jude the Obscure , but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from ...
$14.00
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Karen Mazurkewich
Chinese Furniture: A Guide to Collecting Antiques
The international market for antique Chinese furniture is booming, and masterpieces from the Ming and Qing dynasties are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chinese Furniture is a survey of these collectibles—from the very best hardwood pieces featured to standard softwood specimens stil...
$58.21
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