Personalities

ISBN-13: 9783775740807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 192 str.

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In Personalities, people open doors into their very personal immediate surroundings: their homes and spaces of creative work. As different as they are, what connects them is something special: the elegant, simple and minimalist USM modular furniture system, created in 1961 in Switzerland and now widely considered a design classic. The volume offers a journey into the worlds of these people, letting them tell the stories behind the pieces of furniture--each one as individual as its owner. While the stories constitute the heart of Personalities, well-known specialist authors supplement the text with explorations of material culture and lifestyle. The diversity of those portrayed is reflected in the variety of the accompanying essays, which play with concepts of personality and furniture product design. The resulting volume is a visual feast of the iconic, flexible furniture system that defined postwar industrialist design seen in a variety of contexts.

In Personalities öffnen uns Menschen die Türen zu ihrer ganz persönlichen, unmittelbaren Umgebung: ihrem Zuhause und ihrem Ort des Schaffens. So unterschiedlich sie sind, verbindet sie doch alle etwas ganz Besonderes: Die USM Möbelbausysteme.§§Wir begeben uns auf eine Reise in ihre Lebenswelten und lassen uns die Geschichten hinter den Möbelstücken erzählen - jedes so individuell wie ihr Besitzer. Während die Stories der Personalities das Herzstück des Buches bilden, ergänzen Autoren wie Craig Schuftan, Michael Obert, Anna Sinofzik und Laura Storfner das Thema "Persönlichkeit" um eine psychologische und soziologische Perspektive.§§Wir machen einen Ausflug in die Persönlichkeitspsychologie, werfen einen Blick in Richtung Populärkultur und betrachten Persönlichkeit schließlich im Spannungsfeld zwischen Haben und Sein, zwischen materieller Kultur und Lifestyle. Die Diversität der Porträtierten spiegelt sich in der Vielfalt der begleitenden Essays wider, die auf unterhaltsame und überraschende Weise die Facetten rund um den Begriff der Persönlichkeit aufzeigen.

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In Personalities, people open doors into their very personal immediate surroundings: their homes and spaces of creative work. As different as they are, what connects them is something very special: the USM modular furniture system.
We set out on a journey into their lifeworlds and let them tell the stories behind the pieces of furniture-each one as individual as their owners. While the stories constitute the heart of Personalities, well-known specialist authors supplement the subject of "personality" with a psychological and sociological perspective.
We take a trip into personality psychology, cast a glance in the direction of popular culture, and ultimately take a look at personality in the field of tension between having and being, between material culture and lifestyle.
The diversity of those portrayed is reflected in the variety of the accompanying essays, which call attention to the facets around the concept of personality in an entertaining and unexpected way.