Furniture design Books
Thames & Hudson Ltd The World of Charles and Ray Eames
Book SynopsisA wide-ranging survey of the work and legacy of the pioneering design duo.Trade Review'A revelatory portrait of a hugely influential postwar creative duo' - Sunday Times'A great resource' - Creative Review'Magnificent' - Observer'This weighty tome explores the era-defining work of [Charles and Ray Eames]' - Actual SizeTable of ContentsForeword • 1. Life in Work • 2. At Home with the Eameses • 3. Art of Living • 4. Celebration as a Human Need • 5. Sample Lessons • 6. Information Machines
£26.96
Thames & Hudson Ltd Spectrum Victoria and Albert Museum
Book SynopsisA visual analysis of the colours used in furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to now, providing inspiration for designers. This simply structured and highly original book analyses the palettes that have been used by designers in the creation of furnishing fabrics and wallpapers from the 15th century to the present. The colours used in each pattern are presented in a simple proportional grid, giving a clear understanding of hues that have been expertly combined at different periods to create the designs we continue to admire and emulate. Spectrum opens with a brief introduction by interior design expert Ros Byam Shaw, exploring the history of colour as used in interiors. The fabrics and wallpapers that follow are arranged chronologically. Each is reproduced on its own double-page spread, and is accompanied by a brief narrative-style caption that provides information about each fabric or wallpaper and its significance in the context of interior design. Unique in such a book are the colour grids shown beside each pattern, in which the colours in the original piece are shown in proportion to their use, and with their CMYK references to enable designers to replicate these colours in their own work.Trade Review'A great decorating source for understanding the history of colour' - ELLE Decoration'A fascinating insight into what makes a compelling design, and how our palette returns time and again to certain combinations' - Town & Country'This valuable sourcebook is a fascinating visual history of colour' - House & GardenTable of ContentsIntroduction FABRICS 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century Further reading
£999.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd Industrial Chic
Book SynopsisIndustrial-style furniture is in fashion bistro tables and chairs, lockers, mail sorting racks and jointed lamps are all common elements in interior design. In this book, the author tells us the story behind fifty European and American objects that have made the transition from factories to our livings rooms and become cult furniture.Trade Review'If you're passionate about industrial style furniture and lighting, you will love this book' - mywarehousehome.com
£999.99
Phaidon Press Ltd Chair
Book SynopsisThe most compelling collection ever of the world's most innovative, stylish, and influential chairs
£20.46
Taylor & Francis Ltd FurnitureMakers and Consumers in England 17541851
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£135.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Classic Herman Miller
Book SynopsisThe great postwar modern furniture designs are classics, because they are still great. Herman Miller, the company that led the office revolution, is a name synonymous with the best modern residential as well as contract furniture. Classics by super-designers - Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi - can still be purchased from the Herman Miller for the Home collection.Their designs, plus the work of more than a dozen other important Herman Miller designers, are described here in detail and shown in color and black and white photographs, plus original drawings by Nelson and the famous Frykholm picnic posters, all from the Herman Miller archives.This book is essential for collectors, dealers, curators, designers, and other devotees of modernism.
£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Furniture Queen Anne and Chippendale
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£55.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives
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£54.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd buildingafireplace
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£17.09
Taschen GmbH 1000 Chairs. Revised and updated edition
Book SynopsisMore than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the stylistic consciousness of an era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto to Verner Panton and Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the history of the chair is so complex that it requires a comprehensive encyclopedic work to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet’s bentwood chairs and Hoffmann’s sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair and Ron Arad’s avant-garde armchairs. Early designers and pioneers of the modern chair are presented alongside the most recent innovations in seating. This dedicated compendium displays each chair as pure form, along with biographical and historical information about the pieces and their designers. An illuminating tome for design aficionados and an essential reference for collectors.Trade Review“The ultimate reference book for anyone interested in knowing the what, where, who, why and how of the most iconic chairs from the last two centuries.” * Red Magazine *
£19.00
Rizzoli International Publications Rattan A World of Elegance and Charm
Book SynopsisRattan furnishings evoke the glamour and laid back elegance of exotic beach houses as well as the informal beauty of plant filled garden rooms and sun dappled verandas.Long fascinated with rattan's versatility, designer Lulu Lytle examines the enduring appeal of this sustainable tropical palm in RATTAN: A WORLD OF ELEGANCE AND CHARM. The first book in decades to examine the history and craftsmanship of rattan furniture, this insightful tome showcases rattan's appeal through archival images of beautiful interiors including Madeleine Castaing's winter garden in Paris, Michael Taylor's own Californian beach house, the Titanic's Café Parisian and the Billy Baldwin designed Mr. Kennedy's beauty salon in New York City. Rattan's many personalities are explored through its inclusion in settings as diverse as Impressionist paintings, flamboyant nightclubs and pared down contemporary drawing rooms.A reflection of its inherent beauty and longevity, antique rattaTrade Review"Threadbare stools found in Egyptian tombs and the Titanic’s deck chairs are among the precedents for woven plant-fiber products made by the workshop Soane Britain, as the company’s co-founder, Lulu Lytle, explains in “Rattan: A World of Elegance and Charm” (Rizzoli, $65, 224 pp.)...The book illustrates luminaries relaxing on curlicued or streamlined rattan, including Tsar Nicholas II, Elsie de Wolfe, David Hockney and Elizabeth Taylor. Ms. Lytle also details how craftspeople steam and ply the material. I for one could imagine spending a therapeutic day helping out at the Soane Britain workshop. Ms. Lytle reports that rattan sprouts surface hairs that need to be laboriously singed away, and 'when it is cropped it smells like mown hay.'"—The New York Times"Love the relaxed look of rattan furniture? This book, by the founder of beloved British brand Soane, is for you. Lulu Lytle takes readers on a magical journey through the versatile material, touching on spaces from French gardens to New York City townhouses—and even the chic café on the fated Titanic. best friend gifts, pinky promise necklace and limited edition candle." — HOUSE BEAUTIFUL “I have looked at thousands, and I mean thousands, of photographs of rattan in interiors, and I cannot find a single one where people are looking miserable,” says the author Lulu Lytle in an interview about her fascinating book on rattan, a long-beloved furniture material. “Rattan humanizes even the grandest setting—it’s like the furniture is saying, sit back and have a drink.” —GARDEN & GUN "In making her case for rattan’s enduring appeal, author and Soane Britain cofounder Lulu Lytle references furniture by Jean-Michel Frank, Arne Jacobsen, Renzo Mongiardino, as well as archival images of interiors designed by Madeleine Castaing, Billy Baldwin, and other industry legends as convincing evidential support." —ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.COM
£999.99
Park Books Dust Free Friends
Book SynopsisDust Free Friends is a series of designs for small pieces of domestic furniture, designed by London-based 6a architects, that can be made very simply at home, in restricted spaces, with a small number of tools and without specialist skills. The lightness and simplicity of the pieces is derived from a combination of observation of the way simple plywood constructions on a construction site are adapted to become stools, tables, steps, and stairs, changing quickly and without fuss as workers need them. The designs also re-examine the long tradition of self-build that has shared the journey through modernism with industry and craft. With the Dust Free Friends series, Tom Emerson and Stephanie Macdonald invite the reader make his or her own everyday furniture from dressed plywood. Beautifully produced and illustrated with some 90 easy-to-understand diagrams and images, Dust Free Friends is a comprehensive, precise, and entertaining, manual to furnishing a comfortable place entirely by its users.
£38.62
Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd The Kitchen Dresser: In Praise of a Furniture
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£21.25
