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   longboard | Sep 01, 2005 07:46pm | #1

   <smartass_remark>

   Your search might be aided by searching instead
   for books on 'architecture'.

   ; ]

   </smartass_remark>

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   RickL | Sep 01, 2005 07:53pm | #2

   You should start with your  local library and Barnes and Noble bookstore. Also you might have some used bookstores in your neighborhood. It's nice to actually flip throught the book to see if it explains what you are looking for to see if you might want to buy it. http://www.cambiumbooks.com  is a great source for woodworking  books

   The word is architecture

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   baldmountain | Sep 01, 2005 08:43pm | #3

   I spend way too much money at amazon.com. I find almost anything you can imagine there. I have a bunch of books in my wish list. One is on furniture design:

   Designing Furniture (New Best of Fine Woodworking Series)

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1561586846

   But that is a book on how to design furniture. What I think you are really looking for is:

   "The Encyclopedia of Furniture : Third Edition - Completely Revised" by Joseph Aronson

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517037351

   Although this is the one that is in my wishlist:

   "The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition" by John Morley

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/082122624X

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   RickL | Sep 02, 2005 03:10pm | #5

   "The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition" by John Morley

   Nice book but it primarily features furniture found in palaces. It's circulating in the remainder piles right now. Picked it up for $19.98 in my local used bookstore but then again I'm in a college area with 9 used bookstores within walking distance. Plenty of cheaper online places than amazon if you look around. I can usually get books half of what amazon has it for most of the time.

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   baldmountain | Sep 02, 2005 03:26pm | #6

   Nice book but it primarily features furniture found in palaces.

   That's good to know. Thanks. Not interested anymore...

   Plenty of cheaper online places than amazon if you look around. I can usually get books half of what amazon has it for most of the time.

   Yeah, but the shipping is what gets you. Many times I'll find a book I want for less than a dollar and pay $4 to ship it. I usually buy a book from amazon, read it, and then sell it again. I occasionally make money on the sale.

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   dukeone | Sep 02, 2005 04:19am | #4

   MM: One of my favorites is "A  Visual Dictionary of Architecture" by F. Ching published by Wiley. A great basic book to begin a section on the subject in your library. KDM

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   BG | Sep 02, 2005 10:18pm | #7

   mudman,
   Strongly suggest you get a library card....reveiw the books that way first and then decide on the keepers. The attached list was created by several people on here last year. The only one I've bought so far is Ernst Joyce, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making...it does not address your question but once you figure out shaker of Queen Anne it'll tell you how to do it....

   
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   sapwood | Sep 02, 2005 10:41pm | #8

   Another plug for libraries. You should avail yourself of the inter-library loan program that most libraries participate in. With this you can read most any book even though your local library doesn't shelve it. I have used this quite a bit to get my hands on some very scarce books. (It helps that my wife is a librarian.....home delivery, what could be better?)

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   wrudiger | Sep 03, 2005 07:52am | #9

   Both our local Barnes and Noble stores have been pretty worthless in this subject area.  Rockler and Woodcraft have excellent selections for browsing - much more comprehensive than the library, I've found (though I usually check the library first).

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   polarsea1 | Sep 03, 2005 08:03am | #10

   I'd suggest going to the bookstores/wwstores mentioned and browsing until you find something interesting. If your library doesn't have it sometimes they will order it or get an interlibrary loan.

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   mudman | Sep 08, 2005 07:21am | #11

   Thanks everyone,

   Sorry I've been so long in reading your replies. I've been swamped the last few weeks.

   I have been to three local libraries. I frequent the larger of them (Grapevine municipal library) and I have been unable to find any thing close to what I want. I've been meaning to get to the Dallas library, but I don't have a membership there and it is kind of a long drive to borrow and return books.

   Barnes and Noble has nothing in stock as well.

   I have seen the taunton (I think I own it), but it is not really about style. I think I want a description of the historical progresion of furniture, with details on what constitutes a given style.

   I'll be checking out yalls sugestions.

   Thanks,

   Mike