| Description |
703 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Covers the years 1867-2009. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Language |
Text in English, German and French. |
| Subject |
Furniture design.
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Furniture -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
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Furniture -- History -- 21st century -- Pictorial works.
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Furniture -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
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| Added Author |
Albus, Volker, 1949-
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Mehlhose, Andrea.
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Wellner, Martin.
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| Added Title |
Meubles modernes : 150 ans de design |
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Moderne Möbel : 150 Jahre Design |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Modern furniture. Königswinter, Germany : h.f.ullmann, c2009 (OCoLC)681300271 |
| ISBN |
9783833150494 English ed. |
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3833150491 English ed. |
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9783833156298 French ed. |
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3833156295 French ed. |
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9783833156281 German ed. |
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3833156287 German ed. |
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9780841616448 |
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0841616442 |
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