L'art du menuisier
L'art du menuisier is a French joinery and cabinetmaking treatise by André Jacob Roubo, published in Paris in 1769 under the Académie Royale des Sciences, written for working carpenters and furniture makers. The pictures are precise copperplate engravings of plan and elevation drawings, with lettered figure labels, showing curved joints, window sashes, a bed with balustrade details, and a secretary desk with its interior fittings. A designer could take from them the clean, measured linework of technical drawings and the logic of how wood parts fit together.
