With more than 5,000 furniture and design-specific volumes, The Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library is the largest furniture specialty library in the world.
The rare book collection contains volumes published since 1543 and includes a collection of the original works of 18th-century furniture masters Chippendale, Sheraton, and Hepplewhite, as well as a complete 26-volume set of Diderot’s Encyclopedia published in 1776.
This is one of the few, if not the only place in the world where design professionals, scholars, students, and the public can don a pair of white gloves and examine the original works of the pioneer designers in our industry.