This is not intended to be a definitive bibliography of furniture—such a compilation would make a book in itself—but is rather a list of books I’ve found most useful in writing this one, along with others I think may be of general interest or usefulness.
Adamson, Jeremy Elwell. American Wicker: Woven Furniture from 1850 to 1930. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.
Albrecht, Donald, ed. The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention. New York: Abrams, 1997.
Algoud, H., et al. Authentic French Provincial Furniture from Provence, Normandy and Brittany. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1993.
Andres, Edward Deming, and Faith Andrews. Shaker Furniture: The Craftsmanship of an American Communal Sect. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1964.
———. Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966.
Andrews, John. British Antique Furniture: Price Guide and Reasons for Values. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1990.
Andrews, John, and Joan Andrews. Victorian and Edwardian Furniture: Price Guide and Reasons for Values. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1993.
———. Antique Furniture (Starting to Collect Series). Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1998.
Antonelli, Paola, ed. Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael & Gabrielle Boyd. New York: Rizzoli, 1999.
Asensio, Francisco. The Home Furniture Design of the New Century. Duluth, Minn.: Atrium Publishing Group, 2000.
Auslander, Leora. Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Bachmann, Konstanze, ed. Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1962.
Bates, Elizabeth Bidwell, and Jonathan Fairbanks. American Furniture: 1620 to the Present. New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981.
Bayer, Patricia, ed. The Fine Art of the Furniture Maker: Conversations with Wendell Castle, Artist, and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, Curator, about Selected Works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, 1981.
Beard, Geoffrey. Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England 1530–1840. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
Beckerdite, Luke, ed. American Furniture 1994. Hanover, N.H.: Chipstone Foundation, 1994.
———. American Furniture 1995. Hanover, N.H.: Chipstone Foundation, 1995.
———. American Furniture 1996. Hanover, N.H.: Chipstone Foundation, 1996.
———. American Furniture 1997. Hanover, N.H.: Chipstone Foundation, 1997.
———. American Furniture 1998. Hanover, N.H.: Chipstone Foundation, 1998.
———. American Furniture (American Furniture 1999). Hanover, N.H.: Chipstone Foundation, 2000.
Becksvoort, Christian. The Shaker Legacy: Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1998.
Berliner, Nancy, et al. Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th & 17th Centuries. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1996.
Berliner, Nancy, and Sarah Handler. Friends of the House: Furniture from China’s Towns & Villages. Salem, Mass.: Peabody Essex Museum, 1996.
Beurdelay, Michel. Chinese Furniture. New York: Kodansha International, 1979.
Bishop, Robert. American Furniture, 1620–1720. Dearborn, Mich.: The Edison Institute, 1975.
———. Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640–1870. New York: Dutton, 1972.
———. How to Know American Furniture. New York: Dutton, 1973.
Bishop, Robert, and Patricia Coblentz. Furniture 1: Prehistoric through Rococo (Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.
Bjerkoe, Ethel Hall. The Cabinetmakers of America. Atglen, Penn.: Schiffer Publishing, 1978.
Blakemore, Robbie G. History of Interior Design and Furniture: From Ancient Egypt to Nineteenth-Century Europe. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Boas, George, and James D. Breckenridge. The Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effect. Baltimore, Md.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959.
Bogle, Michael, and Peta Landman. Modern Australian Furniture. Carlsbad, Calif.: Craftsman House, 1989.
Bridenbaugh, Carl. The Colonial Craftsman. New York: NYU Press, 1950.
Bruce, Grace Wu. Chinese Classical Furniture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Brunhammer, Yvonne, et al. Art Nouveau Belgium/France. Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, 1976.
Brunt, Andrew. Phaidon Guide to Furniture. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
Burks, Jean M., and Timothy D. Rieman. The Complete Book of Shaker Furniture. New York: Abrams, 1993.
Burton, E. Milby. Charleston Furniture 1700–1825. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Butler, Joseph T. American Antiques, 1800–1900. New York: Odyssey Press, 1965.
———. Field Guide to American Antique Furniture: a Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique Furniture. New York: Henry Holt, 1987.
Byars, Mel. 50 Tables: Innovations in Design and Materials. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1998.
Camard, Florence (translated by David Macey). Ruhlmann: Master of Art Deco. New York: Abrams, 1993.
Cathers, David M. Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: Furniture Made by Gustav Stickley, L. & J. G. Stickley, and the Roycroft Shop. Philmont, N.Y.: Turn of the Century Editions, 1996.
Cescinsky, Herbert. English Furniture: From Gothic to Sheraton. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1968.
Chinnery, Victor. Oak Furniture, the British Tradition. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1986.
Clark, Michael E., et al. J. M. Young Arts and Crafts Furniture. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1994.
Clark, Robert Judson, ed. The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876–1916. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972.
Clarke, Rosy. Japanese Antique Furniture: A Guide to Evaluating and Restoring. New York: Weatherhill, 1983.
Clunas, Craig. Chinese Furniture. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 1990.
Collard, Frances. Regency Furniture. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1985.
Colombo, Sarah. The Chair: An Appreciation. London: Aurum, 1998.
Comstock, Helen. American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles. Atglen, Penn.: Schiffer Publishing, 1997.
Cooper, Wendy. In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650–1830. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
Cotton, Bernard D. The English Regional Chair. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antiques Collectors Club, 1990.
Cranz, Galen. Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
Crossman, Carl L. The China Trade; Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Other Objects. Princeton, N.J.: Pyne Press, 1972.
Cummings, Abbott Lowell, ed. Rural Household Inventories: Establishing the Names, Uses and Furnishings of Rooms in the Colonial New England Home, 1675–1775. Boston, Mass.: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1964.
D’Ambrosio, Anna Tobin. Masterpieces of American Furniture from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Utica, N.Y.: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1999.
Davidson, Marshall. Bantam Illustrated Guide to Early American Furniture. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.
Day, David, and Albert Jackson. Care and Repair of Furniture. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1994.
De Dampierre, Florence. The Best of Painted Furniture. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
Domergue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York: Abrams, 1984.
Drexler, Arthur. Charles Eames: Furniture from the Design Collection. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Dubrow, Eileen, and Richard Dubrow. American Furniture of the Nineteenth Century: 1840–1880. Atglen, Penn.: Schiffer Publishing, 1983.
Duncan, Alastair. Paris Salons; Furniture 1895–1914. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1996.
———. Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997.
———. Modernism: Modernist Design 1880–1940. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1998.
———. American Art Deco. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999.
———. Art Nouveau Furniture. New York: C.N. Potter, 1982.
———. Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design. New York: Thames &Hudson, 1991.
Duncan, Alastair, and Bruce M. Newman, eds. Fantasy Furniture. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
Eames, Ray, and John and Marilyn Neuhart. Eames Design: The Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. New York: Abrams, 1989.
Earl, Polly Anne, and Ian M. G. Quimby, eds. Technological Innovation and the Decorative Arts. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1974.
Ecke, Gustav. Chinese Domestic Furniture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1968.
Ecke, Gustave, ed. Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1986.
Edwards, Clive D. Twentieth-Century Furniture: Materials, Manufacture and Markets (Studies in Design and Material Culture). Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1994.
———. Victorian Furniture: Technology and Design (Studies in Design and Material Culture). Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1994.
———. Eighteenth-Century Furniture (Studies in Design and Material Culture). Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1996.
Elder, William Voss. Baltimore Painted Furniture, 1800–1840. Baltimore, Md.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1972.
———. John Shaw, Cabinetmaker of Annapolis. Baltimore, Md.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1983.
Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield. Chinese Furniture (Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch’ing Dynasty). 1970. Reprint, New York: Robert H. Ellsworth, 1998.
Emery, Marc. Furniture by Architects. New York: Abrams, 1983.
Evans, Nancy Goyne. American Windsor Chairs. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993.
———. American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1998.
Evans, Nancy Goyne, et al. New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods. Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, 1997.
Fabian, Monroe H. The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest. New York: Universe Books, 1978.
Failey, Dean F., et al. Long Island Is My Nation: The Decorative Arts & Craftsmen, 1640–1830. Setauket, N.Y.: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1976.
Fales, Dean A., Jr. The Furniture of Historic Deerfield. New York: Dutton, 1976.
———. American Painted Furniture 1660–1880. New York: Dutton, 1979.
Fielden, James, ed. The Antiques Clinic: A Guide to Damage, Care, and Restoration. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barrons Educational Series, 1998.
Fiell, Charlotte, and Peter Fiell. 1,000 Chairs. New York: Taschen, 1998.
Fleming, John, and Hugh Honour. Dictionary of the Decorative Arts. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Forrest, Tim. The Bulfinch Anatomy of Antique Furniture: An Illustrated Guide to Identifying Period, Detail, and Design. Boston, Mass.: Bulfinch Press, 1996.
Freund, Thatcher. Objects of Desire: The Lives of Antiques and Those Who Pursue Them. New York: Penguin USA, 1995.
Giedion, Sigfried. Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1948.
Gilbert, Christopher. English Vernacular Furniture, 1750–1900. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1991.
Gilborn, Craig A. American Furniture, 1660–1725. London: Hamlyn Publishing, 1970.
———. Adirondack Furniture and the Rustic Tradition. New York: Abrams, 1987.
Gilliam, Jan Kirsten. Furnishing Williamsburg’s Historic Buildings. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1992.
Giusti, Anna Maria. Pietre Dure: Hardstone in Furniture and Decorations. London: Philip Wilson, 1992.
Gloag, John. A Social History of Furniture Design from B.C. 1300 to A.D. 1960. New York: Crown Publishers, 1966.
Gray, Stephen. Roycroft Furniture. New York: Turn of the Century Editions, 1981.
Greenberg, Cara. Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s. New York: Harmony Books, 1995.
———. Op to Pop: Furniture of the 1960s. Boston, Mass.: Bulfinch Press, 1999.
Greene, Jeffrey P. American Furniture of the 18th Century. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press, 1996.
Habegger, Jerryll, and Joseph H. Osman. Sourcebook of Modern Furniture. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
Hanks, David A. The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Dutton, 1979.
———. Innovative Furniture in America: From 1800 to the Present. New York: Horizon Press, 1981.
Harling, Robert, ed. Studio Dictionary of Design & Decoration. New York: Viking Press, 1973.
Harwood, Barry Robert. The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, 1997.
Hayward, Helena, ed. World Furniture: An Illustrated History from Earliest Times. London: Hamlyn Publishing, 1965.
Heckscher, Morrison H. American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964.
Hillier, Bevis. The World of Art Deco. New York: Dutton, 1971.
Himmelheber, Georg. Biedermeier Furniture. London: Faber and Faber, 1974.
———. Cast-Iron Furniture and All Other Forms of Iron Furniture. London: Philip Wilson, 1996.
Honour, Hugh. Cabinet Makers and Furniture Designers. New York: Putnam, 1969.
Hornor, William Macpherson, Jr. The Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture, William Penn to George Washington. Washington, D.C.: Highland House, 1977.
Howe, Katherine S., ed. Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age. New York: Abrams, 1994.
Hurst, Ronald L., and Jonathan Prown. Southern Furniture 1680–1830: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection. New York: Abrams, 1997.
Hyde, Bryden B. Bermuda’s Antique Furniture and Silver. Baltimore, Md.: Maryland Historical Society, 1971.
Jacobson, Dawn. Chinoiserie. London: Phaidon Press, 1999.
Jervis, Simon. Victorian Furniture. Sydney, Australia: Wardlock, 1968.
Jobe, Brock W., and Myrna Kaye. New England Furniture: The Colonial Era: Selections from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Jobe, Brock W., and Myrna Kaye. et al. American Furniture with Related Decorative Arts, 1660–1830: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Layton Art Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1992.
———. Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1993.
Johnson, Hugh, et al. The International Book of Wood. London: Artists House, 1982.
Joyce, Ernest. Encyclopedia of Furniture Making. New York: Sterling Publications, 1989.
Kane, Patricia E., and Charles F. Montgomery, eds. American Art: 1750–1800, Towards Independence. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1976.
———. 300 Years of American Seating Furniture: Chairs and Beds from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1976.
Kassay, John. The Book of Shaker Furniture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
———. The Book of American Windsor Furniture: Styles and Technologies. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Kates, G. Chinese Household Furniture. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1962.
Kaye, Myrna and Jobe, Brock W. Fake, Fraud, or Genuine?: Identifying Authentic American Antique Furniture. Boston, Mass.: Bulfinch Press, 1990.
Kenny, Peter M., et al. American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650–1800. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.
———. Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris: The Life and Work of a French Ebéniste in Federal New York. New York: Abrams, 1998.
Ketchum, William C., Jr. Furniture 2: Neoclassic to the Present (Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.
———. The Knopf Collectors’ Guides to American Furniture: Volume 2—Chests, Cupboards, Desks & Other Pieces. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
———. American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640–1940. New York: Crown, 1995.
Killen, G. Ancient Egyptian Furniture. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1980.
———. Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture. Princes Risborough, U.K.: Shire, 1994.
Kinmonth, Claudia. Irish Country Furniture, 1700–1950. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.
Kirk, John T. Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, Buy & Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces—High Style, Country, Primitive & Rustic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.
———. American Furniture & the British Tradition to 1830. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Kirkham, Pat. Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
Koizumi, Kazuko (translated by Alfred T. Birnbaum). Traditional Japanese Furniture: A Definitive Guide. New York: Kodansha International, 1995.
Lever, Jill. Architects’ Designs for Furniture. New York: Rizzoli, 1982.
Levison, Deanne, and Albert Sack. The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece. New York: Crown Publishing, 1993.
Lewin, Leonard Bruce. Shopping for Furniture: A Consumer’s Guide. New York: Linden Publishing, 1988.
Linley, David. Classical Furniture. New York: Abrams, 1993.
———. Extraordinary Furniture. New York: Abrams, 1996.
Little, Nina. Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts. New York: Dutton, 1984.
Lo, Kai-Yin. Classical and Vernacular Chinese Furniture in the Living Environment. Chicago, Ill.: Art Media Resources, 1998.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Furniture: A Concise History. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985.
Macquoid, Percy. A History of English Furniture: In Four Volumes. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1972.
Madigan, Mary Jean, et al. Nineteenth Century Furniture: Innovation, Revival and Reform. New York: Billboard Publications, 1982.
———. Early American Furniture: From Settlement to City. New York: Billboard Publications, 1983.
Makepeace, John. The Art of Making Furniture. Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, 1988.
Mang, Karl. History of Modern Furniture. New York: Abrams, 1979.
Margon, Lester. Construction of American Furniture Treasures: Measured Drawings of Selected Museum Pieces with Complete Information on Their Construction and Reproduction. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1975.
Martin, Ann Smart. Makers and Users: American Decorative Arts, 1630–1820, from the Chipstone Collection. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Elvehjem Art Center, 1999.
Meadmore, Clement. The Modern Chair: Classic Designs by Thonet, Breuer, Le Corbusier, Eames and Others. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1997.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964.
Montgomery, Charles F. American Furniture: The Federal Period, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
Morley, John. The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition. Boston, Mass.: Bulfinch Press, 1999.
Muller, Charles R. The Shaker Chair. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1992.
Myerson, Jeremy. Makepeace: A Spirit of Adventure in Craft & Design. New York: Cross River Press, 1995.
Naeve, Milo M. Identifying American Furniture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, Colonial to Contemporary. Walnut Creek, Ca.: Altamira, 1998.
Nutting, Wallace. Furniture Treasury (2 Volumes in 1). New York: IDG Books Worldwide, 1954.
Oates, Phyllis Bennett. The Story of Western Furniture. Franklin, N.Y.: New Amsterdam Books, 1999.
Obbard, John. Early American Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors. Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 1999.
Osborne, Harold. The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ostergard, Derek E. Mackintosh to Mollino: Fifty Years of Chair Design. New York: Barry Friedman, Ltd., 1984.
Parissien, Steven. Regency Style. London: Phaidon Press, 1996.
Parsons, Charles S. The Dunlaps and Their Furniture. Manchester, N.H.: Currier Gallery of Art, 1970.
Payne, Christopher. Nineteenth Century European Furniture Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1988.
Payne, Christopher, ed. Sotheby’s Concise Encyclopedia of Furniture. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1995.
Payne, Christopher, et al. Miller’s Collecting Furniture: The Facts at Your Fingertips. London: Octopus Publishing Group, 1996.
Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985.
Pile, John. Dictionary of 20th Century Design. New York: Facts On File, 1990.
———. Furniture: Modern and Postmodern. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990.
Pina, Leslie A. Fifties Furniture. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1996.
———. Classic Herman Miller. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1998.
———. Furniture 2000: Modern Classics and New Designs in Production. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1998.
Quimby, Ian M. G., ed. Material Culture and the Study of American Life. New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.
Randall, Richard H., Jr. American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, Mass.: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965.
Rheims, Maurice. The Flowering of Art Nouveau. New York: Abrams, 1966.
Riley, Noel, ed. World Furniture. London: Octopus Books, 1980.
Riley, Noel, and Tom Rowland, A–Z Guide to Cleaning, Conserving and Repairing Antiques. North Ponfret, N.H.: Trafalgar Square, 1998.
Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez. American Furniture at Chipstone. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.
Royka, Paul A. Mission Furniture: Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1997.
Ruddy, Robin. French Provincial Furniture. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1998.
Santore, Charles. The Windsor Style in America: The Definitive Pictorial Study of the History and Regional Characteristics of the Most Popular Furniture Form of 18th-Century America, 1730–1840. Philadelphia, Pa.: Courage Books, 1997.
Saunders, Richard. Collecting and Restoring Wicker Furniture. New York: Crown Publishers, 1976.
Schaffner, Cynthia V. A., and Susan Klein, American Painted Furniture: 1790–1880. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1998.
Schiffer, Nancy. America’s Oak Furniture: With Price Guide. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1998.
Schwartz, Marvin D. American Interiors, 1675–1885: A Guide to the American Period Rooms in the Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1968.
———. The Knopf Collectors’ Guides to American Furniture: Volume 1—Chairs, Tables, Sofas & Beds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Seale, William. The Tasteful Interlude: American Interiors Through the Camera’s Eye, 1860–1917 (American Association for State and Local History Book Series). Walnut Creek, Ca.: Altamira Press, 1985.
Selz, Peter, ed. Art Nouveau and Design at the Turn of the Century. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1959.
Sembach, Klaus-Jurgen, ed. Modern Furniture Designs 1950–1980s: An International Review of Modern Furniture. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1997.
Sieber, Roy. African Furniture and Household Objects. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
Soros, Susan Weber. E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.
———. The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000.
Spencer, Robin, et al. The Aesthetic Movement and the Cult of Japan. London: Fine Arts Society, 1972.
Sprigg, June. By Shaker Hands: The Art and the World of the Shakers—The Furniture and Artifacts, and the Spirit and Precepts Embodied in Their Simplicity, Beauty and Functional Practicality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.
Stickley, Gustav, et al. Collected Works of Gustav Stickley. New York: Turn of the Century Editions, 1989.
Stimpson, Miriam. Modern Furniture Classics. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1997.
Svarth, Dan. Egyptian Furniture-Making in the Age of the Pharaohs. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1998.
Swedberg, Robert W., and Harriet Swedberg, Furniture of the Depression Era: Furniture and Accessories of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Paducah, Ky.: Collector Books, 1990.
Taragin, Davira S. Furniture by Wendell Castle. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996.
Thornton, Peter. Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France & Holland. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978.
Tracy, Charles. English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork. Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: Antique Collectors Club, 1989.
Von Vegesack, Alexander, et al. Thonet: Classic Furniture in Bent Wood and Tubular Steel. London: Hazar, 1996.
Walker, Aidan, ed. The Encyclopedia of Wood: A Tree-by-Tree Guide to the World’s Most Versatile Resource. New York: Facts On File, 1989.
Walkling, Gillian. Upholstery Styles: A Design Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989.
———. Antique Bamboo Furniture. London: Bell & Hyman, 1979.
Wang, Shixiang. Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties. Chicago, Ill.: Art Media Resources, 1990.
———. Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties. Chicago, Ill.: Art Media Resources, 1991.
Ward, Gerald W. R., ed. The Eye of the Beholder: Fakes, Replicas, and Alterations in American Art. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970.
———. American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988.
Warren, David B. Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Watson, Sir Francis, et al. The History of Furniture. London: Orbis Publishing, 1976.
Wharton, Edith, and Ogden Codman, Jr. 1902. The Decoration of Houses. Reprint, New York: W.W. Norton, 1978.
Wilson, Richard Guy, et al. The American Renaissance, 1876–1917. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1979.
Winterthur Museum. Neoclassicism in the Decorative Arts: France, England and America. Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, 1971.
Zea, Philip. The Dunlap Cabinetmakers: A Tradition in Craftsmanship. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1994.