The Atlas of Furniture Design

(Hardback)

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From the Vitra Design Museum a 1,000-page book that will deliver the most comprehensive overview on the history of furniture design ever published The publication will document some 1,691 objects, 550 of them accompanied by detailed texts. The project has involved a team of over 70 authors and features roughly 2,595 images, from high-quality object photographs to reproductions of historical documents such as brochures, patents, interiors or reference works in art or architecture. The basis for the Atlas of Furniture Design is the furniture collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind in the world with more than 6,400 pieces of furniture as well as the estates of such design legends as Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard, George Nelson and others. The collection comprises pieces by the most significant designers and manufacturers of the past 200 years. It includes early industrial furniture in bentwood or metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces, protagonists of classical modernism like Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, Charlotte Perriand or Marcel Breuer, postwar figures such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin or Gae Aulenti but also postmodern and contemporary designers like Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders or Konstantin Grcic.

Reviews

...this 1,000-page compendium documents 1,740 objects made by 546 furniture designers over the past 230 years -- from chairs by Marcel Breuer to Ikea's Billy bookshelf -- through time lines, biographies, infographics, and more.-- "New York Magazine: Strategist"
[An] uber comprehensive tome dedicated to the history of modern furnishings...--Rachel Gallager "Gray"
[A] comprehensive overview on the history of furniture design...-- "Buisness of Furniture"
[A]n A-Z compendium of the most iconic 1,700 plus objects designed by 550 designers...--Wolff Natasha "Forbes"
Never before have stools and sideboards teemed with so much life.--Hunker Dukes "Aesthetica"
The contribution, which outlines the development of the design discipline between 1973 and 2017, provides essential context to the tome's comprehensive survey of 1,740 objects of modern design.--Samuel Medina "Metropolis"

Author Bio

Edited by Mateo Kries, Henrike Bscher, Jochen Eisenbrand. Texts by Mateo Kries, Henrike Bscher, Jochen Eisenbrand, Fulvio Ferrari, Otakar Mel, Jane Pavitt, Ingeborg de Roode, Arthur Regg, Deyan Sudjic, Wolf Tegethoff, Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum, Gerald W.R. Ward, among others.