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by Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell
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1000 Chairs (Klotz)
1000 Chairs (Klotz)

Visual odyssey through iconic chair designs.

If you're fascinated by the blend of practical necessity and creative expression found in everyday objects, "1000 Chairs" will be a treasure for your collection. This book dives deep into the design evolution of one of the most ubiquitous pieces of furniture. It's a perfect read for design enthusiasts and anyone who appreciates how form meets function in the simplest of objects — the chair. Through its vast range of imagery and insightful commentary, you'll never look at a chair the same way again.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9783822879658
Authors: Charlotte Fiell, Peter Fiell
Publisher: Taschen
Date of Publication: 2000-01-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Art, Sociology
Related Topics: Art Books Monographs, Art and Photography, Social Issues, World History, Art Design, Design, Architecture
Goodreads rating: 4.22
(rated by 426 readers)

Description

Sleek, stuffed, buttoned, or bent, in the den or the dining room, the chair is an indicator of its owner's identity. Chairs make up much of the interior landscape of our homes and workplaces, and a comfortable chair is considered a great asset in either location. A rigorous survey of the last 150 years of chairs, 1000 Chairs is a pictorial guide to the axiom "you are where you sit." Writers Charlotte and Peter Fiell argue that, as well as being an icon of identity, the chair is a form through which designers engage in social, political, and even ergonomic rhetoric. A good example is George Nelson's mass-produced modular seating system. Geometrical in design, its austere, mostly rectilinear lines are efficient and economical. The book follows developments and mutations in chair design from the days before art deco through the rise of modernity and into the mid-'90s, when designers like Philippe Starck used such materials as recycled plastic and injection molded polypropylene. In total there are more than the 1000 advertised illustrations, and each is accompanied by a small text describing the significance of the chair and its designer. The book includes more than 100 capsule biographies of such designers as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Adolph Loos, and Marcel Breuer. The only problem with 1000 Chairs is, ironically, its own ergonomics. At about eight by six inches and nearly 800 pages, it is an unwieldy little tome. That aside, this is a great book--a must for anyone interested in sitting down. --Loren E. Baldwin
 

Visual odyssey through iconic chair designs.

If you're fascinated by the blend of practical necessity and creative expression found in everyday objects, "1000 Chairs" will be a treasure for your collection. This book dives deep into the design evolution of one of the most ubiquitous pieces of furniture. It's a perfect read for design enthusiasts and anyone who appreciates how form meets function in the simplest of objects — the chair. Through its vast range of imagery and insightful commentary, you'll never look at a chair the same way again.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.