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Introduction: Producing your own designs -- Television cabinet: The importance of design -- A thinking man's chest: Working with what's available -- Six-board chest: Underlying construction principles -- Desk box: The interplay of construction and function -- Legless coffee table: Minimal production, maximum result -- Side table: The traditional approach -- Parson's table: The essence of simplicity -- Sound shelving: Designing to a need -- Traveling trestle table: Designing for convenience -- Dining table: Unusual requirements -- Standing cabinet: Contemporary design -- Glazed credenza: New uses for old furniture types -- Pepysian bookcase: Working in previous styles -- Gothic armchair: Exploring different mind-sets.

Design lessons from a master woodworker.

"Furniture by Design" is a project book for the woodworker, but one that goes beyond traditional woodworking manuals to teach design concepts through carefully selected, hands-on projects the woodworker builds himself.

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 woodworker the freedom to build anything, with or without plans.

The book presents a dozen different pieces of furniture, each illustrated with detailed line drawings and each final product pictured in full color. 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.