1000 Chairs: In the 20th Century

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We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. After many best-selling years, 1000 Chairs has now been painstakingly and comprehensively revised and updated to include not only new and beautiful imagery for a large number of the existing entries, but many brand new entries have been added, too. A must for design addicts and collectors alike, this dependable compendium presents each chair alongside essential information about the designer and their work, from Alvar Aalto to Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to International Style. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia. The Fiells first published their round-up of chairs in 1997 and it has since become a bible for those who are interested in the story of seating.

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. About the seriesBibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe! My flatmate lampooned my love of chairs at one of her sketch comedy gigs--she played the founder of the 'Danish Chair Club' which apparently convenes to mock inferior European and American designs. This recently refurbished edition traverses archetypal seats of the 1800s right up to the most innovative designs of today. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice.Among their various areas of specialization is the realm of transportation design in all its diverse forms. 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.

The book devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its own as pure form, with biographical and historical information about the chairs and their designers. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids.

If a designer is only as good as her sources, 1000 Chairs is all you need for a one-stop crash course in the history of seating. 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. The particular curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the color of the entire artifact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era.