Download or read book Furniture for the 21st Century written by Betty Norbury and published by Viking Studio. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of superb work from 36 eminent British professional designer-makers, and it highlights the best of hand-built furniture that has been commissioned by corporate and private clients from around the world. It contains 420 color photographs that display the quality and craftsmanship of designers of uncompromising standards that set them apart from the blandness that overwhelms so much of today's furniture design. This visual feast is an essential reference for interior designers, furniture historians, and students of design, as well as for those who delight in the superb craftsmanship of the finest contemporary furniture makers.
Download or read book Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture written by Judith Gura and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: printable JPEG files of all the images in the book.
Download or read book On the Edge of Your Seat written by The Center for Art in Wood and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 photos plus insightful essays from a variety of perspectives celebrate the chair the centerpiece of furniture arts over the course of American furniture making in this inspiring showcase of 45 works from 39 artists. These chairs, benches, and stools are sculptural, conceptual, functional (and occasionally dysfunctional) seating, reflecting the dramatic latest evolution since the storied history of chairmaking in Philadelphia. Statements by each of the artists offer their sources of inspiration and creativity. The chairs, set against the backdrop of the world's mass-production and petroleum-based materials, stand as a beacon to the vitality and critical importance of independent artisans and designers in raising the bar of excellence in the built world. A one-of-a-kind history of Philadelphia chair design, with full-page images of 40 historic chairs, is also featured. Compiled by Joshua Lane, the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, it details their evolution and makers, and their significance in furniture history."
Download or read book Furnish written by Sophie Lovell and published by Gestalten Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furnish seeks to document new work from pioneering designers, artists and architects exploring new domestic territories. It also explores the new hybrid nature of occupied spaces.
Download or read book Swiss Furniture and Interiors in the 20th Century written by Arthur Rüegg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the development of interiors and furniture in Switzerland from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day have been surveyed and documented. Following the two introductory essays, seven chapters focus each on a time span of 15 years, with detailed information on the definitive masterpieces of that period. Some 20 representative interiors reveal the significant changes in living space during the 20th century. A fully illustrated catalogue of over 300 objects from furniture to ceramics and household objects and around 150 biographies conclude the publication.Edited by Professor Arthur Rüegg, this fascinating compendium of the great classics in Swiss design contains much previously inaccessible information, rare early works and invaluable details on the origins and production of the objects. A large part of the furniture has been photographed especially for this publication and model furnished interiors have been drawn to the same scale.
Download or read book American Furniture Designers written by Oscar P. Fitzgerald and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will serve as the essential reference for collectors of modern furniture, curators of museum collections and house museums with 20th century furniture, and for the hundreds of dealers, gallery owners, auctioneers, and appraisers who specialize in 20th and 21st century design.
Download or read book Twenty first Century Design written by Marcus Fairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the design landscape, guiding the reader through the array of movements, styles & trends, & identifying leading designers, as well as future design classics. This work places the modern scene in a historic framework & explores cultural & economic forces shaping design.
Download or read book New American Furniture written by Edward S. Cooke and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artwork by Edward Cooke Jr.
Download or read book Knoll Home Office Furniture written by Nancy Schiffer and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visually exciting, comprehensive in content, this gorgeous book documents modern furniture sold and produced by Knoll from 1938 to 2005, from its roots at the Bauhaus, to New York City, through Knoll International. It showcases over 560 beautiful color and black and white photographs of dynamic and practical seating, tables, beds, desks, cabinets, and accessories by many leading architects and furniture designers. Descriptions include the designer, years of design and/or manufacture, materials, and dimensions.
Download or read book Mid Century Modern Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna written by Caroline Wohlgemuth and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day – not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics of twentieth-century furniture design, the epitome of mid-century modern style. This book honors the memory of the exiled designers with a thorough overview of their work. It details their life stories and their visionary designs, which remain as relevant and contemporary as ever, and brings to light new aspects of the history of Viennese furniture design.
Download or read book 21st Century Furniture V written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Going with the Grain written by Mike Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer written by Christopher Natale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer satisfies the need in the interior design field for a source that teaches the aesthetic as well as the construction of residential furniture. Beginning chapters cover the design process as it relates to furniture design, basic materials, hardware, joinery, and finishes. Because interior designers organize and create livable spaces, later chapters are organized room by room, showing how pieces are constructed for a particular space. Understanding the basic construction of furniture greatly increases the success of the design. Interior designers should be confident in their design work as well as have an understanding of what is involved with the construction of their pieces, and that is what Natale and this book guide them toward.
Download or read book Joinery Joists and Gender written by Deirdre Visser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joinery, Joists and Gender: A History of Woodworking for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich histories of women and gender non-conforming persons who work in wood. Written for craft practitioners, design students, and readers interested in the intersections of gender and labor history—with 200 full-color images, both historical and contemporary—this book provides an accessible and insightful entry into the histories, practices, and lived experiences of women and nonbinary makers in woodworking. In the first half the author presents a woodworking history primarily in Europe and the United States that highlights the practical and philosophical issues that have marked women’s participation in the field. Research focuses on a diverse range of practitioners from Lady Yun to Adina White. This is followed by sixteen in-depth profiles of contemporary woodworkers, all of whom identify fine woodworking as their principal vocation. Through studio visits, interviews, and photographs of space and process, the book uncovers the varied practices and contributions these diverse artisans make to the understanding of wood as a medium to engage spatial, material, aesthetic, and even existential challenges. Beautifully illustrated profiles include Wendy Maruyama, one of the first women to earn an MFA in woodworking in the US; Sarah Marriage, founder of Baltimore’s A Workshop of Our Own, a woodshop and educational space specifically for women and gender non-conforming makers; Yuri Kobayashi, whose sublime work blurs boundaries between the worlds of art and craft, sculpture, and furniture; and Folayemi Wilson, whose work draws equally on African American history and Afrofuturism to explore and illuminate the ways that furniture and wood traditions shape social relations.
Download or read book Factory Man written by Beth Macy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.
Download or read book Jansen Furniture written by James Archer Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Jansen is synonymous with exclusivity in interior design. The Jansen firm catered to the desires and ambitions of society's elite, including monarchs of England, Belgium, Holland, and Spain, and established an unrivalled network of satellite off
Download or read book 50 Chairs written by Mel Byars and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are a vast number of books which illustrate contemporary design, almost none shows how they are made or the details of the technology and materials employed. On the contrary, 50 Chairs: Innovations in Design and Materials reveals an amazing collection of machines for seating. Exploded drawings are accompanied by factory-location photographs, many taken especially for this book.
