Kategoria BISAC: Design >> Furniture

A grand tour of the chair through the ages by our foremost writer on design

Have you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere?

In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, and of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the...

Stuart Walker s design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious.

Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and the malaise that underlies today s moral and environmental crises.

The author argues that this malaise is deep-seated and fundamental to the modern outlook. He shows how our preoccupation with technological progress, growth and the future has produced a constricted view of life one that is both...

Stuart Walker s design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious.

Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse range of sources and informed by creative practice, Design for Life penetrates to the heart of modern culture and the malaise that underlies today s moral and environmental crises.

The author argues that this malaise is deep-seated and fundamental to the modern outlook. He shows how our preoccupation with technological progress, growth and the future has produced a constricted view of life one that is both...

In der Zeit, als der Wiener Glasverlag J. & L. Lobmeyr 1823 gegrundet wurde, avancierte Glas zum beliebten Material fur Architekten und Gestalter. In Kooperation mit Architekten wie Josef Hoffmann, Oswald Haerdtl und Adolf Loos entstanden spater Designklassiker, von denen manche noch heute unverandert hergestellt werden.

Seit dem Jahr 2000, nun in sechster Generation gefuhrt, knupft Lobmeyr wieder an die groe Zeit der Wiener Glasgestaltung zu Beginn des vergangenen Jahrhunderts an. In Zusammenarbeit mit Wiener und internationalen Designern entwickelt Lobmeyr neue Designstrategien,...

Selina begins by describing her sources of garden inspiration--famous gardens, specialist nurseries and garden centers, plant catalogs, and old botanical prints. Armed with ideas, she moves on to Chapter Two, Decorating your Garden, which is packed with suggestions for container gardening, using recycled elements, styling truly tiny spaces (including balconies and window boxes), sourcing and displaying vintage...