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Furniture Design

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Authors:
  1. Jerzy Smardzewski

    1. Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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  • Maximizes reader insights into the principles of designing furniture as wooden structures
  • Presents in detail the methods and errors of designing, the characteristics of furniture materials, components, joints and structures, as well as the rules regarding developing design documentation
  • Provides instructions on how to calculate the stiffness and endurance of parts, joints and whole structures, including questions addressing the loss of furniture stability and of resulting threats to the health of the user
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The History of Furniture Construction

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 1-45

  3. Classification and Characteristics of Furniture

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 47-95

  4. Ergonomics of Furniture

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 97-184

  5. Introduction to Engineering Design of Furniture

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 185-283

  6. Technical Documentation

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 285-317

  7. Stiffness and Strength Analysis of Skeletal Furniture

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 319-455

  8. Stiffness and Strength Analysis of Case Furniture

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 457-571

  9. Stiffness and Strength Analysis of Upholstered Furniture

    • Jerzy Smardzewski
    Pages 573-649
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About this book

Maximizing reader insights into the principles of designing furniture as wooden structures, this book discusses issues related to the history of furniture structures, their classification and characteristics, ergonomic approaches to anthropometric requirements and safety of use. It presents key methods and highlights common errors in designing the characteristics of the materials, components, joints and structures, as well as looking at the challenges regarding developing associated design documentation. Including analysis of how designers may go about calculating the stiffness and endurance of parts, joints and whole structures, the book analyzes questions regarding the loss of furniture stability and the resulting threats to health of the user, putting forward a concept of furniture design as an engineering processes. Creating an attractive, functional, ergonomic and safe piece of furniture is not only the fruit of the work of individual architects and artists, but requires an effortof many people working in interdisciplinary teams, this book is designed to add important knowledge to the literature for engineer approaches in furniture design.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland

    Jerzy Smardzewski

About the author

Jerzy Smardzewski is a full professor of wood technology, since 1986 he has worked at the Department of Furniture Design, Faculty of Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland.

Graduating from the Technical School of Wood Technology (secondary school) in 1981 and in 1986 from the Faculty of Wood Technology in Poznan. Since 2002 he has been a full professor of wood technology, speciality of furniture design and since 2008 he has headed the Department of Furniture Design.

Professor Smardzewski has written 6 books, 371 articles, and 11 patent applications teaching subjects such as Construction of furniture, Technology of furniture, Ergonomics of furniture and history of furniture at the university. Since 1997 till 2001 he was a director in office furniture factory at Balma S.A.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Furniture Design

  • Authors: Jerzy Smardzewski

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19533-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19532-2Published: 29 June 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36908-2Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19533-9Published: 18 June 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 649

  • Number of Illustrations: 484 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Materials Engineering, Structural Materials, Light Construction, Steel Construction, Timber Construction

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