Description |
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm |
Summary |
Presents a wave of designers who are applying architectural techniques to create innovative new furnishing options, including bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, and self-contained, expandable kitchen cubes. |
Note |
Includes index of designers. |
Contents |
1. Experimenting with structure. -- Frameworks -- Deconstruction -- Blocks & modules -- Stacks and towers -- Transformers -- Parametrics. 2. Furniture as micro-architecture. -- Fusion -- Space organizers -- Room in a room -- In-built -- Landscapes. 3. Synthesis. -- Macro-furniture -- Architectural shelving -- Partitions -- Plug-ins & add-ons -- Building blocks -- Mutli-scale. |
Subject |
Furniture design -- History -- 21st century.
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Furniture design -- History -- 20th century.
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Space (Architecture)
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ISBN |
9780500517765 |
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0500517762 |
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