Three Books I am Reading Right Now: January 2022

“The Anarchist’s Design Book” by Christopher Schwarz: This book focus on vernacular furniture. More specifically, staked furniture.

“Kitchen Think” by Nancy R. Hiller: This book offers one method of building kitchen cabinets that the author created by mixing other professional shop practices and her own additions. The author also offers her perspective on kitchen remodeling as a cultural phenomenon, along with ways of thinking about particular aspects of kitchen design.

“The Essential Woodworker” by Robert Wearing: This book covers the absolute basic skills needed to start woodworking along with tried and true joints and constructions for the four basic cabinet-making forms. These are the stool or table constructions, the carcass or box constructions, the door and the drawer. The 500+ illustrations are of great help.