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Modern furniture : 150 years of design = Meubles modernes : 150 ans de design = Moderne Möbel : 150 Jahre Design / Volker Albus ... [et al.] ; [book concept and design, Fremdkörper Designstudio, Andrea Mehlhose & Martin Wellner].
Language: English, French, German Publication details: Königswinter, Germany : h.f.ullmann, c2009.Description: 703 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cmISBN:- 9783833150494 (English ed.)
- 3833150491 (English ed.)
- 9783833156298 (French ed.)
- 3833156295 (French ed.)
- 9783833156281 (German ed.)
- 3833156287 (German ed.)
- Meubles modernes : 150 ans de design
- Moderne Möbel : 150 Jahre Design
- NK2395 .M63 2009
Contents:
Today-2000: Rocking postmodernism - Myto / Konstantin Grcic -- Limited editions - Unlimited possibilities -- 1999-1990: Sustainable design -- A short history of design fairs and events -- Bundled drawers - Tejo Remy's Chest of drawers -- 1989-1980: How do we sit? From the Well tempered chair to the Big easy / Ron Arad -- Andrea Branzi's Animali domestici - Post-apocalyptic survival props -- Natural urban gemütlichkeit - New German design in the 1980s -- Agent provocateur - Philippe Starck's Chair Costes -- Memphis - surpassing mere representation -- White and ubiquitous - monobloc chairs -- 1979-1970: Simply Billy -- Domestic landscapes -- Ettore Sottsass Jr. and His Mobili Grigi - a tomb for modernism -- 1969-1960: An unpretentious icon - Robin Day's polyprop chair -- Arne Jacobsen - Swan & egg -- 1959-1950: Castiglioni - focusing on individual objects -- Particleboard -- 1949-1940: A thoroughly modern material - Ray and Charles Eames' plywood experiments -- 1939-1930: The history of design in a nutshell - Into a natural network -- Erich Dieckmann - nature's own steel -- 1929-1920: The cantilever chair -- Neues bauen, new forms of living, new man - furniture from the Bauhaus workshops -- The chair as a manifesto -- 1919-1900: Josef Hoffmann - Sitzmaschine -- 1899-1859: The history of art-nouveau furniture -- Michael Thonet's bentwood furniture.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NK 2395 .M63 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5038345 |
Text in English, German and French.
Covers the years 1867-2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Today-2000: Rocking postmodernism - Myto / Konstantin Grcic -- Limited editions - Unlimited possibilities -- 1999-1990: Sustainable design -- A short history of design fairs and events -- Bundled drawers - Tejo Remy's Chest of drawers -- 1989-1980: How do we sit? From the Well tempered chair to the Big easy / Ron Arad -- Andrea Branzi's Animali domestici - Post-apocalyptic survival props -- Natural urban gemütlichkeit - New German design in the 1980s -- Agent provocateur - Philippe Starck's Chair Costes -- Memphis - surpassing mere representation -- White and ubiquitous - monobloc chairs -- 1979-1970: Simply Billy -- Domestic landscapes -- Ettore Sottsass Jr. and His Mobili Grigi - a tomb for modernism -- 1969-1960: An unpretentious icon - Robin Day's polyprop chair -- Arne Jacobsen - Swan & egg -- 1959-1950: Castiglioni - focusing on individual objects -- Particleboard -- 1949-1940: A thoroughly modern material - Ray and Charles Eames' plywood experiments -- 1939-1930: The history of design in a nutshell - Into a natural network -- Erich Dieckmann - nature's own steel -- 1929-1920: The cantilever chair -- Neues bauen, new forms of living, new man - furniture from the Bauhaus workshops -- The chair as a manifesto -- 1919-1900: Josef Hoffmann - Sitzmaschine -- 1899-1859: The history of art-nouveau furniture -- Michael Thonet's bentwood furniture.
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