LibGuides: Furnishing and Joinery: Websites

Furniture web links by category

Design Tasmania
Design Tasmania is a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to support and sustain design. It has Australia's only museum collection of contemporary wood design
Furniture Style Guide
The Furniture Style Guide describes and dates nineteen popular furniture styles and their distinctive components.
The History of Furniture Timeline
A helpful chart listing major furniture periods throughout history, including sections at the bottom regarding the uses of various woods and construction methods.
Victoria & Albert Museum Furniture Gallery
Tells the story of furniture design and production spanning the past 600 years and displays more than 200 outstanding pieces, including chairs, tables, bureaux, stools, chests, cabinets and wardrobes.

Australian wood review
Website for the journal with lots of extras. Includes quick links to woodwork galleries, resources and wood-related events
Forest & Wood Products Australia
Forest and Wood Products Australia Limited (FWPA) is a not-for-profit company that provides national, integrated research and development services to the Australian forest and wood products industry.
Greenpeace Good Wood Guide (pdf)
The Greenpeace Good Wood Guide aims to help you make an informed, environmentally responsible decision when buying wood and wood products.
Island Specialty Timbers
Island Specialty Timbers, (IST) an enterprise of Forestry Tasmania was established at Geeveston in 1992 to increase the recovery, availability and value of specialty timbers from harvesting activities in State forests.
Timber Architecture
Published by the Timber Development Association of New South Wales which is an industry funded, not for profit organisation representing all segments of the timber industry.
Wood. The Ultimate Renewable
The Ultimate Renewable website has been created to give you information about Australia's forest and wood products sector. The aim is to help everyone understand the natural advantages of wood and its positive contribution to reducing the effects of climate change. (Resourced by FWPA)
Wood Products Victoria
Wood Products Victoria (WPV) aims to develop, promote and protect the use of sustainable timber and wood products to ensure timber products are used wherever and whenever they are the most suitable materials.

Australian Furniture Association
Information on the Australian furniture industry - includes the history of furniture in Australia from 1788 to date
Forest Stewardship Council Australia
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international, membership based, non-profit organisation founded in 1993 by environmentalists, social interest groups, indigenous peoples’ organisations, responsible retailers and leading forest management companies to develop standards based on the ‘10 Principles for Forest Stewardship’ by which responsible forest practice can be measured.
Australian Cabinet and Furniture Association
The Australian Cabinet and Furniture Association represents the commercial interests of the furnishing and joinery industry. They provide new apprentices with vocational education & training.
Studio Woodworkers Australia
Studio Woodworkers Australia is the national association promoting and assisting professional designer makers and artists specialising in wood.
Victorian Woodworkers' Association
The Victorian Woodworkers' Association aims to make connections between woodworkers in Australia and the rest of the world, to expand the information available on all aspects of the craft, and to make available information about Australian woodwork and woodworkers to a wider audience.
Woodworkers Association of NSW
The Association aims to provide a forum for networking and to encourage camaraderie amongst all those who work in wood.
Responsible Wood
An umbrella organisation for endorsing national forest certification systems that have been developed through multi-stakeholder processes and tailored to local priorities and conditions.

Australian Timber Design Awards
Australasia’s most recognised stamp of excellence in timber design! Annual Australian Timber Design Awards Magazine is available online via this site.
The Australian Woodworking Industry Suppliers Association Ltd. (AWISA)
AWISA was formed in 1986 by the principal suppliers to the Australian woodworking industry. The main aims of the association are to present industry exhibitions, publish industry magazines, co-operate with other organisations in the woodworking industry, and to uphold the highest ethical standards and to encourage members to do the same.
sofasandsectionals.com
A commercial American site with links to many interesting internet sites on woodworking tools, methods of woodworking, woodworking plans and techniques, how-to guides and safety tips.
Studio Woodworkers Australia
Studio Woodworkers Australia is the national association promoting and assisting professional designer makers and artists specialising in wood.
Victorian Woodworkers Association
The VWA aims to make connections between woodworkers in Australia and the rest of the world, to expand the information available on all aspects of the craft, and to make available information about Australian woodwork and woodworkers to a wider audience.
Wood Solutions
WoodSolutions features innovative timber buildings from Australia and around the world. These case studies focus on the use of timber across a vast range of applications, highlighting both its natural and environmental benefits over using steel, concrete or aluminium.
Woodworkers Association of NSW
The Association aims to provide a forum for networking and to encourage camaraderie amongst all those who work in wood.