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Mackintosh Furniture
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Roger Billcliffe (Author)
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Cameron & Hollis (Editor)
In a career of only twenty-five years, Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed well over 300 pieces of furniture, the majority in two relatively short periods, 1897-1905 and 1916-1919. This book gives an unprecedented overview of Mackintosh's body of work and illustrates*with over 400 photographs*all of his major pieces as well as the interiors for which they were produced. The range of works presented here is quite remarkable, featuring not only the elongated chairs for which Mackintosh is most remembered, but also tables, bookcases, beds, bathroom fittings, and even a pulpit and an organ. The pieces here range stylistically from the more routine late-Victorian pieces of his earliest period, through the white-painted OEpook School' furniture of 1901-03, to the geometrical severity of Mackintosh's work for W.J. Bassett-Lowke in 1916-19. Mackintosh Furniture is a comprehensive look at a designer whose influence has only recently begun to fully realize itself, and is a must for both students and aficionados of design.
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Friedrich Kiesler: Designer
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Tulga Beyerle (Author)
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Harald Krejci (Author)
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Monika Pessler (Author)
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Don Quaintance (Author)
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Frederick Kiesler (Contributor)
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Hatje Cantz Publishers (Editor)
Previously unpublished material relating to Austro-American artist/architect Friedrich Kiesler's (1890-1965) innovative furniture designs and prototypes from the 1930s and 40s are showcased in this comprehensive volume. Also included are letters, diary entries, and photographs that chronicle the New York cultural environment in which Kiesler lived and worked, and provide rarely documented insight into the role he played in the contemporary design scene. Shortly after emigrating to New York in 1925, Kiesler became an important mediator between European and American positions in the fields of design and architecture. In the following years, he designed furniture and exhibitions, and articulated the fundamental principles of a critical theory of functional architecture and design. Concepts that are being thoughtfully revisited by today's designers--flexibility, dynamism, and multifunctionality--were constant elements in Kiesler's theoretical constructs, as evidenced in this volume.
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Modern Furniture Designs 1950-1980s: An International Review of Modern Furniture (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
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Klaus-Jurgen Sembach (Editor)
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Schiffer Publishing (Editor)
A comprehensive and abundantly illustrated collection of the most outstanding modern furniture around the world. Now with a guide to current values, this is an indispensible book for collectors, architects, designers, and furniture historians. Over 1000 of the most innovative designs are shown, many of which have become classics of the late-twentieth century. Pieces range from simple modern chair to large pieces and installations. It covers the range of modern materials from wood to plastic, steel to Lucite.
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Modern Furniture Classics: Postwar to Postmodern
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Charlotte Fiell (Author)
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Peter Fiell (Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
With the close of the twentieth century, the design achievements of the postwar period can at last be seen in perspective. This book presents a visual history of furniture design since 1945 in some of the most spectacular color photographs of furniture ever published. The first half of the century was in many ways a testing ground for ideas that only became reality in succeeding generations, benefiting from the huge technological advances made during the Second World War and from the dynamic force of consumer demand. New materials and techniques created previously undreamed-of possibilities that were exploited to the full by innovative furniture designers. The exciting results began in 1945 with such achievements as the highly sculptural molded plywood chairs of Charles and Ray Eames, who were among the first to use organic shapes derived from the natural world. Revolutionary 1950s designs, including Harry Bertoia's wire Diamond chairs and Eero Saarinen's futuristic Pedestal Group, were followed in the late 1950s by the rise of consumerism?and the eccentricities of kitsch?which in turn gave way in the 1960s to the explosion of Pop culture. The following decades were equally rich, with the development of Counter Design by Ettore Sottsass, the factory lights and scaffolding supports of High-Tech, the Craft Revival, Art Furniture, and Ergonomic styling, with each trend continuing to show intriguing national and regional differences. This has become the standard work on the furniture of the entire period: every piece included is able to stand for all time as a classic work of design. Illustrated with over 140 color reproductions, all accompanied by detailed descriptions, it is completed by a comprehensive reference section that provides detailed designer biographies, a bibliography, a list of retail outlets and museums, and advice on collecting. 347 illustrations, 144 in color.
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Sourcebook of Modern Furniture (Norton Books for Architects & Designers)
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Jerryll Habegger (Author)
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Joseph H. Osman (Author)
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W. W. Norton & Company (Editor)
A comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded. Over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of furniture or fixture make this book the go-to guide for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and dimensions. 1892 photographs.
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Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd
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Aaron Betsky (Author)
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Paola Antonelli (Author)
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Philippe Garner (Author)
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Michael Boyd (Introduction)
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Rizzoli International Publications (Editor)
One hundred chairs, couches, other seating furniture, and objects from what is perhaps the most important and comprehensive collection of modernist furniture in priate hands have been newly photographed in color for this lavish book. Accompanying an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this bok spans the 20th century as it showcases the work of modern masters ranging from Peter Behrens, Otto wagner, and Gerrit Rietveld, throug LeCorbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, to Wendell Castle, Donald Judd, and Marco Zanuso.
Sitting on the Edge will delight and inform design professionals as well as anyone with a passion for style.
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Modern Chairs (Midsize)
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Charlotte Fiell (Author)
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Peter Fiell (Author)
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Taschen (Editor)
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New Furniture Design
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daab (Editor)
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daab (Editor)
In every of the new compact design books are about 25 to 30 projects shown to the particular theme. As far as available, projects are presented with detailed plans.
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Furniture Design (Midsize)
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Klaus-Jurgen Sembach (Author)
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Taschen (Editor)
Status symbols that define the spirit of the age Designers of genius. Henry van de Velde, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Josef Hoffmann. Le Corbusier and Emile Jacques Ruhlmann. Charles Eames, Ettore Sottsas and Philippe Starck. At their hands furniture came into its own. The twentieth century transformed interiors into sets - and on those sets the creations of these designers played the star parts. This is a book about status symbols that express the character of their owners but, more than that, define the spirit of the age.
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