An edition of 1000 Chairs (1997)

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An edition of 1000 Chairs (1997)

1000 chairs

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More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the stylistic consciousness of an era.

From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto to Verner Panton and Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the history of the chair is so complex that it requires a comprehensive encyclopedic work to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet’s bentwood chairs and Hoffmann’s sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ron Arad’s avant-garde armchairs. Early designers and pioneers of the modern chair are presented alongside the most recent innovations in seating.

This dedicated compendium displays each chair as pure form, along with biographical and historical information about the pieces and their designers. An illuminating tome for design aficionados and an essential reference for collectors!

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Publisher
Taschen
Language
English
Pages
768

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1000 Chairs
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Cover of: 1000 chairs
1000 chairs
1997, Taschen
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Edition Notes

Text in English, with parallel German and French translation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 744-745) and index.

Published in
Köln, New York
Genre
Catalogs.
Other Titles
One thousand chairs, Thousand chairs

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
749/.32/09034
Library of Congress
NK2715 .F47 1997, NK2715.F47 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
768 p. :
Number of pages
768

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6886057M
Internet Archive
1000chairs0000fiel_s6y3
ISBN 10
3822879657
LCCN
00501033, gb98012998
OCLC/WorldCat
38424083
Library Thing
59154
Goodreads
2862805

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