Atlas of Furniture Design, Vitra Design Museum
The "Atlas of Furniture Design" is the greatest book on the history of furniture design ever published.
With 1,028 pages, 2,500 illustrations, 1,691 objects produced by more than 300 designers and 120 manufacturers, 550 of them accompanied by detailed texts, this hardcover book, based on the collections of the Vitra Design Museum is both a reference encyclopedia and an essential resource for designers, collectors and all art professionals.
This book features images from high-quality object photographs to reproductions of historical documents such as brochures, patents, interiors or reference works in art or architecture.
The book presents work of such design legends as Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard, George Nelson.
It includes early industrial furniture in bentwood or metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces,
protagonists of classical modernism like Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, Charlotte Perriand or Marcel Breuer,
postwar figures such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin or Gae Aulenti
but also postmodern and contemporary designers like Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders or Konstantin Grcic.
Principaux chapitres de l'ouvrage :
- Foreword
- The Atlas of Furniture Design, by Mateo Kries
- Thoughts on the Collection by Ralf Fehlbaum
- 1780 - 1914
- Essay - Between Invention and Tradition: in search of a Modern Style
by Sabine Wieber - OBJECTS
- Infographics
- 1914 - 1940
- Essay - The Trimph of Modernism
by Gerda Breuer - OBJECTS
- Infographics
- 1940 - 1973
- Essay - From Post-War to Pop: Between Reconstruction and Consumerism
by Jane Pavitt - OBJECTS
- Infographics
- 1973 - 2017
- Essay - Opening New Doors of Possibility: Postmodernism and the Digital Age
by Avinash Rajagopal and Vera Sacchetti - OBJECTS
- Infographics
- Designer Biographies
- Glossary of Manufacturers
- Glossary of Materials and Production Techniques
- Annexes, Index
The French texts are written under the supervision of Mateo Kries.
Printed in 2019, this book is NEW and is 9-½ inches x 12 inches ( 24 cm x 31 cm )
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