Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3899551761 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 271 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book documents recent work by designers, artists and architects that shows how they are using furniture in pioneering ways: as environment, as art object, as digital-organic growth, as mutation or as insertion. The book also presents surprising interdisciplinary work, for example, the results of architects engineering tables, graphic designers creating soft furniture and industrial designers making concept art.The experimental spaces that are shown in Furnish are not only interesting for interior designers, but also contain innovative examples of interdisciplinary design work that are relevant and inspiring for anyone working creatively.. While furniture and product design were once largely driven by classical industrial and interior design, these disciplines are now also being shaped by the visual culture of graphic design and high-tech production processes. These new influences are contributing to the creation of furniture and interiors that go beyond anything previously designed or imagined.Furnish presents domestic territories that expand upon our current understanding of interior design. These cutting-edge examples are a sure indicator of the trends that will be influencing interiors as well as hotel, restaurant and club design for the next several years.Furnish also explores the new hybrid nature of occupied spaces, where the domestic enters the realm of fine art and where objects f
"predicting the future in interior decor in 2007 did not come true by 2015" according to NiQ. it's 2015 and most of the furniture/ideas have not become furnishings,esp in North america. based on recent gander of interior decor magazines, the chintz & pawson modernism seems to be the norm. most of the furnishings seem to be based on DROOG's ideas of decor which may be fine for arty dutch/german couples but it will not fly here . just too weird.This book is a great example of why predicting the future is so dangerous and why people are very . It's come a long way Jeffrey L. Furniture has come a long way since the Eames and Jacobsens, and these breath-taking examples of contemporary industrial designs are proof. Furnish is a must-have overview of breaking furniture design for retail and private spaces, and more interestingly, where space converges with fine art. Two thumbs up.. Furnish review Furnish offers a complete overview of recent design. Beautiful visually through a bit short on actual content.