Modern Furniture Classics Since 1945This stunning volumes presents a complete visual history of furniture design since 1945, with 144 spectacular color photographs (and another 203 in bandw), all accompanied by detailed descriptions. A comprehensive reference section provides designer biographies, a bibliography, a lists of retail outlets and museums, and advice on collecting. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Academy aesthetic Alessandro Mendini aluminium American born anti-design architect Archizoom armchair avant-garde Bauhaus Bertoia British Broecke Carlo Mollino Cassina chair designed Charles Eames Child's chair colour construction Craft Revival created culture Danish Danny Lane decorative designed furniture desk Eero Saarinen Ettore Sottsass exhibition fabric-covered fibreglass foam-upholstered Fornasetti function furniture design Gaetano Pesce George Nelson Gio Ponti Hans Wegner Herman Miller Inc highly Industrial Design innovative inspired interior design Isamu Noguchi Italian design Italy Joe Colombo Knoll International laminated later legs London Lounge chair manufactured Marco Zanuso mass production materials Memphis Milan Triennale Modern Movement modernist moulded plywood Museum of Modern ottoman pedestal base pieces of furniture Pierre Paulin plastic plywood seat post-modernism postwar Ray Eames Ribbon chair Scandinavian design sculptural seat and back seat shell side chair sofa Stacking chair Studio Alchymia style tubular metal upholstered Warren Platner Wendell Castle wood York