Overview
- 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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Authors and Affiliations
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