The Mode Chair:Classic Designs by Thonet, Breuer, Le Corbusier, Eames and Others
by: Clement Meadmore (Author)
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Print Length: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0486298078
ISBN-13: 9780486298078
Book Description
In this profusely illustrated study, a noted fuiture designer brings together more than 40 examples of chairs that combine practicality and elegance to transcend the confines of period and fashion. Featured are such mode “classics” as Thonet’s Bentwood armchair, Breuer’s Wassily chair, van der Rohe’s Barcelone chair, and many more.Each chair is described in detail with the aid of photographs, Mr. Meadmore’s own explanatory drawings and some reproductions of the original designers’ plans. The author also explores the ways in which the designers approached and solved inherent problems of function and aesthetics. The scale drawings in this book are all one-eighth of full size, allowing easy assessment of dimensions and visual comparison of size and proportion.Many of these chairs are housed in museum collections; others are still being produced today. Now, this inexpensive edition of The Mode Chair enables students of fuiture and any interested reader to make a thorough study of the most important chairs of mode times.
In this profusely illustrated study, a noted fuiture designer brings together more than 40 examples of chairs that combine practicality and elegance to transcend the confines of period and fashion. Featured are such mode “classics” as Thonet’s Bentwood armchair, Breuer’s Wassily chair, van der Rohe’s Barcelone chair, and many more.Each chair is described in detail with the aid of photographs, Mr. Meadmore’s own explanatory drawings and some reproductions of the original designers’ plans. The author also explores the ways in which the designers approached and solved inherent problems of function and aesthetics. The scale drawings in this book are all one-eighth of full size, allowing easy assessment of dimensions and visual comparison of size and proportion.Many of these chairs are housed in museum collections; others are still being produced today. Now, this inexpensive edition of The Mode Chair enables students of fuiture and any interested reader to make a thorough study of the most important chairs of mode times.
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