Modern Furniture, 150 years of design

In mint condition/ nette staat
collectors item

719 pages
Color photos
Hard cover
25 x 20 cm
2,287 kg
English

As a reverse-chronological survey-beginning with 2011 and winding back to early modern designs from the latter half of the 19th century-this chunky catalogue becomes a wide-ranging lesson in the principles of furniture design, considering influential designers, one-of-a-kind show pieces, and wildly successful mass-produced items, from Gillis Lundgren's Billy Bookcase for IKEA (1979) to Michael Thonet's pioneering No. 14 "bistro" bentwood chair (1859). Most of the items here-seen in large, captioned color photos-have the page to themselves, while essays by more than a dozen experts touch on particular trends and themes of design.


"Modern Furniture presents a retrospective of the most important developments and highlights in furniture design of the past 150 years, beginning with the latest trends for 2011.
The spotlight focuses on several individual gems of design, from the most contemporary Heaven series of the Italian manufacturer Emu back to the famous cantilever chair, but also on creations such as laminate and chipboard that we no longer regard as design innovations but have nevertheless greatly influenced the home décor of our times.
Concise texts accompanying the individually featured designs, as well as excurses on selected themes and styles written by experts, round off this benchmark illustrated book."

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