Making Modern Danish Furniture

Making Modern Danish Furniture by Rolf Schiitze is a practical woodworking guide for home craftsmen and students. This digital PDF edition provides instant access to drawings, material lists, and step-by-step instructions.

The text first appeared in Danish as a revised edition in 1971 and was translated into English in 1973. It is designed for anyone with a carpenter’s bench and ordinary hand tools, and it is equally suitable for school woodwork classes and night schools.

Making Modern Danish Furniture – Book Overview

This book covers the materials, tools, finishing methods, and joints used in modern furniture. It then presents a series of projects for chairs, tables, bookshelves, bookcases, beds, and couches, with practical advice on design and function.

The drawings use projections and obliques, and dimensions are given in inches with millimetre equivalents in brackets. Many projects include lists of materials with cut measurements, while the amount of dimensioning is kept to what the maker actually needs.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Finishing methods for pine and oak, including chemical staining, smoking oak, laboratory pine stain, oiling, and lacquering.
• The main joinery techniques used in modern furniture, such as dowelling, open and inserted mortise and tenon joints, and other assembly methods.
• Detailed designs for armchairs, standard chairs, the Kenya chair, rocking chair, footstool, tables, desks, bookshelves, bookcases, beds, and couches.
• Project drawings with dimensions shown only where they are essential, plus inch and millimetre measurements.
• Advice on auxiliary tools such as a form press and drill guide.
• Classroom-tested instructions based on years of woodwork teaching with pupils of different ages.

Why This Book Matters

Danish modern furniture is admired for its clean forms and natural materials. This book preserves a practical, workshop-level view of that tradition, written for people who want to make furniture rather than simply read about it.

It connects design ideas with hand-tool work and has been used in school woodwork classes as well as by hobbyist makers. For readers interested in Scandinavian furniture and traditional woodworking techniques, it remains a useful reference.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This is a digital download, so there is no physical shipping. Access is available immediately after purchase.

The PDF can be used with compatible Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and standard reading applications.

FAQ

How do I get access after purchase? You will receive instant access after checkout, and the file will be available for download.

Will a physical book be shipped? No. This is a digital PDF edition, so no printed copy will be sent.

What devices can I use? The PDF works with Kindle apps, tablets, desktops, mobile phones, and most PDF readers.

Bring Danish modern furniture methods to your own workbench with this practical digital edition.