Description
Nye, Alvan Crocker.
Furniture Designing and Draughting.
New York, W. T. Comstock, 1900.
Nye was an instructor of Furniture Design at Pratt Institute. While not showing Arts & Crafts design, the book serves as a good introduction to the occupation of furniture design as practiced in 1900. It lays out the role of the designer and that of the maker as practiced in fancy chair companies.
(Cat 18.5).
