Furniture by architects / edited by Driss Fatih, foreword by Stephen Crafti
- Bib ID:
- 6264103
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Mulgrave, Victoria : The Images Publishing Group, 2013
- ©2013
- 207 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781864705041 (hardback)
- Summary:
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'Furniture by Architects' features an eclectic range of extraordinary and eye-catching furniture designs by leading contemporary architects. Following the tradition of great masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, these top architects and designers have extended their talents to create beautiful and unusual furniture pieces and collections for the rapidly growing and increasingly global market for designer furniture. The furniture pieces showcased in this book include tables, chairs, sofas, benches, cabinets, shelving and lighting fixtures as well as some unique one-off pieces. The featured styles range from futuristic to classical, and geometric to organic, covering the full spectrum of contemporary furniture design. Materials used range from state-of-the-art plastics and the best quality timber to found objects and recycled metals. The book explores why, historically, so many iconic furniture pieces have been designed by architects. Think of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair and the now ubiquitous Eames Lounge and Ottoman.Essentially, the same fundamental principles used for designing extraordinary buildings can be applied at a much smaller scale to create outstanding pieces of furniture, which embrace form and function to become highly collectable objects of art. Furniture by Architects will appeal to collectors and creators of designer and custom furniture, as well as architects, interior designers and everyone with an interest in high-quality design.
- Full contents:
- Allegro lamp ; Anise pendant ; AR-K cupboard ; Arc table ; Ash ribbon table ; Athlone bench ; Balance lounge chair ; Bamboo float ; Barcode light ; Black & white side board, buffet and desk ; Booktrough ; Boomerang chili ; Bridge Island bench ; Cabinet of curiosity ; Cascade sideboard ; Chair Guido ; Clip daybed ; Coffee table and end table ; Convertible island ; Custom sink ; D-LINE desk ; Dining table and chair ; Dove stool ; Entelechy series II: Lounge chair ; Flakes chair 2.0 ; FLO light ; Floor lamp ; Flotsam and jetsam table ; Fonda bench ; FOSS pendant light ; Foster 520 armchair for Walter Knoll ; Foster 550 LED lights ; Freestanding ashtrays ; Gleam shelving ; Grandstand outdoor table ; Holey tree ; Honeycomb gardening system ; Hudson Panos table ; Iceberg nightstand ; IXI hanging light ; Jake tables ; Light boxes ; Liquid glacial dining and coffee table ; Little giraffe ; Lo glo lights ; Lofot table ; Lunar sofa system ; Mille-Feuille ; minuscule (TM) chair ; Modular outdoor seating ; Modular seating ; MONI shelves ; MYchair ; MYchair lounge ; Nichos ; Norfolk table ; OTTA table ; Parenthetical shelving ; Prospect outdoor table ; Ro (TM) chair ; Seating stones ; Serac bench ; Series 7 chair ; Shell games ; Shelving ; Shimmer table and chair ; SIRAP shelves ; Sit table ; Soft mosaic collection ; Spline sideboard ; Studio series ; Swatt chaise lounge ; Swiss Lakes coffee table series ; Ten thousand years table ; The arachnid ; TIND end table ; titanium ; Vortexx chandelier ; Walnut dining table ; workplaysleep.01 ; Z chair ; Zephyr sofa.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- "The information and illustrations in this publication have been prepared and supplied by the contributors."--Page 208.
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- Publication date:
- 2013
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