Download or read book The History of Modern Furniture Design written by Daniela Karasová and published by Arbor Vitae/Museum of Decorative Arts Prague. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The richly illustrated monograph tells the story of modern furniture produced from the first half of the 19th century - the Biedermeier period - to the late 20th century. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the modern history of furniture in the Czech lands against the backdrop of significant developments in furniture making worldwide, including one-of-a-kind designer furniture. Particular attention is devoted to the most distinguished artists-designers, as well as the fates of furniture manufacturers and institutions. The volume examines the art-historical aspects of furniture manufacturing, sources of stylistic inspiration, the types of materials used, as well as technological aspects. Profiles of eminent Czech and international furniture designers form an important part of the publication. The book also serves as a catalogue to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague's study depository of 19th- and 20th- century furniture housed in the chateau in Kamenice nad Lipou"--Wrap around half-jacket.
Download or read book HMFD written by Daniela Karasová and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: The richly illustrated monograph tells the story of modern furniture produced from the first half of the 19th century - the Biedermeier period - to the late 20th century. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the modern history of furniture in the Czech lands against the backdrop of significant developments in the field worldwide, including one-of-a-kind designer furniture. Particular attention is devoted to the most distinguished artists-designers, as well as the fates of furniture manufacturers and institutions. The volume examines the art-historical aspects of furniture manufacturing, sources of inspiration, types of materials and technological aspects. Profiles of eminent Czech and international furniture designers form an important part of the publication. 0Exhibition: Castle Kamenice nad Lipou, Czech Republic (Permanent exhibition). 0.
Download or read book Atlas of Furniture Design written by Mateo Kries and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design. Featuring over 1700 objects by more than 500 designers and 121 manufacturers, it includes approximately 2800 images ranging from detailed object photographs to historical images documenting interiors, patents, brochures, and related works of art and architecture. The basis for the Atlas of Furniture Design is the collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind with more than 7000 works. The book presents selected pieces by the most important designers of the last 230 years and documents key periods in design history, including early nineteenth-century industrial furniture in bentwood and metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces and works by protagonists of classical modernism and postwar design, as well as postmodern and contemporary pieces. The Atlas of Furniture Design employed a team of more than 70 experts and features over 550 detailed texts about key objects. In-depth essays provide sociocultural and design-historical context to four historical epochs of furniture design and the pieces highlighted here, enriched by a detailed annex containing designer biographies, glossaries, and elaborate information graphics. The Atlas of Furniture Design is an indispensable resource for collectors, scholars and experts, as well as a beautifully designed object that speaks to design enthusiasts.
Download or read book History of Modern Furniture written by Karl Mang and published by New York : Abrams. This book was released on 1979 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designers include: Michael Thonet, Otto Wagner, Alvar Aalto, Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinin, Hans Wegner, Joe Colombo, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffmann, George Nelson [and others.].
Download or read book Guerilla Furniture Design written by Will Holman and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build stylish and functional furniture from salvaged materials. This innovative guide presents dozens of strategies for upcycling scrap cardboard, metal, plastic, or wood into dependable shelving units, sturdy tables, and fun lamps. With directions for 35 easy and inexpensive projects that include a Cardboard Cantilever Chair, a License Plate Bowl, a Conduit Coatrack, and much more, you’ll be inspired to start filling your home with unique high-style furniture that makes sense for both your wallet and the environment.
Download or read book Meubles Modernes written by Volker Albus and published by H F Ullmann. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive retrospective of furniture design in the past 150 years. 900 illustrations
Download or read book The New Modern Furniture Design written by Francisco Asensio Cerver and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referenced here are the best new creations in modern furniture design to guide readers in decorating homes or offices. Materials, measurements, and other specs are included.
Download or read book Interior Design written by Arnold Friedmann and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the design student.
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 Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design written by Antoinette LaFarge and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design. With her ingenious system for building inexpensive but sturdy “box furniture” out of recycled materials, she aimed to bring good design to the urban working class. As Antoinette LaFarge shows, Brigham forged a singular career for herself that embraced working in the American and European settlement movements, publishing a book of box furniture designs, running carpentry workshops in New York, and founding a company that offered some of the earliest ready-to-assemble furniture in the United States. Her work was a resounding critique of capitalism’s waste and an assertion of new values in design—values that stand at the heart of today’s open and green design movements.
Download or read book History of Modern Design written by David Raizman and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the parallel development of product and graphic design from the 18th century to the 21st. The effects of mass production and consumption, man-made industrial materials and extended lines of communication are also discussed.
Download or read book History of Modern Furniture written by Karl Mang and published by London : Academy Editions. This book was released on 1979 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Furniture written by John F. Pile and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1990-05-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the important developements that have occurred in the last decade, the Second Edition offers a completely updated look at comtemporary furniture and furniture design, particularly postmodernism. Written for the entire design community, this important edition covers the history, aesthetics and techniques involved in both the design and production of modern furniture. The expanded and revised coverage looks at trends, market and specific environments as it discusses domestic design, new furniture products--especially the many varied types of office furniture and office systems--renewed interest in ``period'' furniture, recent concern with ``ergonomic'' designs and matters of safety, and the special needs of the elderly, handicapped and children. Features new information on prominent architecture and design firms and furniture manufacturers, together with examples of their work. Over 300 photographs, drawings and illustrations complement the text.
Download or read book Sourcebook of Modern Furniture written by Jerryll Habegger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth century, the Sourcebook of Modern Furniture comprises over 1,200 illustrated entries, cataloging the most distinctive and important creations of renowned designers and architects. The criteria for inclusion include innovative materials and manufacturing techniques as well as successful syntheses of form and function. Arranged by type of furniture or fixture, each illustration is accompanied by the essential details of the design: date, the name of the designer, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and physical dimensions. A complete list of suppliers and indexes of designers, model names, and manufacturers are included for ready reference. From the 1870 "Corbusier" dining chair designed by Gebruder Thonet and used extensively in early Corbusier interiors, to the latest works of Ron Arad, Nanna Ditzel, Richard Meier, and Philippe Starck in the 1990s, the Sourcebook provides an overview of this century's milestones - essential reference material for interior designers, architects, decorators, collectors, and anyone interested in the history of design.
Download or read book Trajectories written by Hai Fang and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A beautifully presented text on the history of modern Western furniture design across the 19th to 21st centuries, containing more than 500 full-color and archival images of original classic furniture, covering the key stages in the history of furniture design and representative works of each stage - Researched and written by two eminent epistemologists in the fields of modern furniture history and design, including important topics such as globalization and informationalization - Covers an important selection of Western and Chinese designers who have emerged on the global design stage in the last two decades This beautifully presented book provides a comprehensive philosophical and cultural overview of design systems and styles of furniture design around the world, with a particular focus on design trajectories from the 19th to the 21st centuries and their global impacts on the furniture design field. Also presented here are details of many masters of furniture design, both Western and Chinese, and their ideas and works in both the temporal and geographical dimensions. Richly illustrated with more than 500 full-color and archival images, chapters include an overview of furniture design systems around the world; the pioneers of modern furniture design from seven different schools; the impacts of the Bauhaus movement on design and the classic design masters of the same period; the masters of different schools in the era of the design revolution post-Bauhaus; and the significant works of a new generation of furniture designers worldwide. Written by two eminent epistemologists in the fields of modern furniture design, industrial design, architectural and environmental design, and design history research, Trajectories: Modern Furniture Design offers incisive and unique insights into historical furniture design references against the context of globalisation and informationalisation, and the emerging design talents across the globe and the scope of modern furniture design in the world today.
Download or read book The Politics of Furniture written by Fredie Floré and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era. They were often meant to express an international and in some respects apolitical modern language, but when placed in a sensitive setting or a meaningful architectural context, they were highly capable of negotiating or manipulating ideological messages. The agency of modern furniture was often less overt than that of political slogans or statements, but as the chapters in this book reveal, it had the potential of becoming a persuasive and malleable ally in very diverse politically charged arenas, including embassies, governmental ministries, showrooms, exhibitions, design schools, libraries, museums and even prisons. This collection of chapters examines the consolidating as well as the disrupting force of modern furniture in the global context between 1945 and the mid-1970s. The volume shows that key to understanding this phenomenon is the study of the national as well as transnational systems through which it was launched, promoted and received. While some chapters squarely focus on individual furniture elements as vehicles communicating political and social meaning, others consider the role of furniture within potent sites that demand careful negotiation, whether between governments, cultures, or buyer and seller. In doing so, the book explicitly engages different scholarly fields: design history, history of interior architecture, architectural history, cultural history, diplomatic and political history, postcolonial studies, tourism studies, material culture studies, furniture history, and heritage and preservation studies. Taken together, the narratives and case studies compiled in this volume offer a better understanding of the political agency of post-war modern furniture in its original historical context. At the same time, they will enrich current debates on reuse, relocation or reproduction of some of these elements.
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Furniture and Woodwork written by John Hungerford Pollen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant work by English writer on crafts and furniture, John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902), is an interesting study of ancient and modern furniture and woodwork. He carefully reviews them and carries us back to the days in which these pieces of artistic furniture were made. This work makes the reader familiar to the taste and techniques, the habits and the needs, of those olden ages which eventually leads to a comparison between the furniture and woodwork of that era and the modern times. Contents include: Furniture Ancient and Modern Antique: Egypt, Nineveh and Greece The Romans Byzantine Art The Middle Ages The Fifteenth Century The Renaissance in Italy Renaissance in England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain Tudor and Stuart Styles Furniture of the Eighteenth Century Changes of Taste and Style Appendix: Names of the Designers of Woodwork and Makers of Furniture
