1000 Chairs (Klotz) (English, German and French Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3822879657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 768 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date history of the chair. Each chair explored is illustrated with explanatory notes giving details of the manufacturer. The volume covers 200 years of chair design represented by 1000 chairs created by some 400 international designers.
In total there are more than the 1000 advertised illustrations, and each is accompanied by a small text describing the significance of the chair and its designer. Sleek, stuffed, buttoned, or bent, in the den or the dining room, the chair is an indicator of its owner's identity. Geometrical in design, its austere, mostly rectilinear lines are efficient and economical. A rigorous survey of the last 150 years of chairs, 1000 Chairs is a pictorial guide to the axiom "you are where you sit." Writers Charlotte and Peter Fiell argue that, as well as being an icon of identity, the chair is a form through which designers engage in social, political, and even ergonomic rhetoric. Chairs make up much of the interior landscape of our homes and workplaces, and a comfortable chair is considered a great asset in either location. A good example is Georg
a small book with big content Ping Lim This is a very informative reference book on chairs. The introduction summarises succinctly the significance of chairs in our day to day life. It's not only something that we could sit on. The book is conveyed in 3 different languages, illustrated with mixtures of colour & B&W pictures. Biographies of the designers & manufacturers' information come in rather handy indeed. Brief descriptions of chairs are useful at. Five Stars Everything about chairs!!!. imian said A very useful resource. As a graphic designer who explores industrial design with great interest, I bought this book when as soon as I saw it. I couldn't check it out thoroughly because it was wrapped. but the photography looked pretty good on the covers. Obviously this is a great resource for designers to go back to and see how one of the most influential pieces of furniture - the chair, developed throughout the ages, throughout the dif
Charlotte J. They also edited the six-volume Decorative Arts series published by TASCHEN. They have lectured widely, curated a number of exhibitions and written numerous articles and books on design and designers, including TASCHEN's Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris, Design of the 20th Century, and Industrial Design A-Z. and Peter Fiell run a design consultancy in London spec