Brazilian Furniture Design editor Otavio Nazareth (Book)

by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...

Highly important, Frederik Sieck's work on Danish furniture design is considered a classic and authoritative work. It gives a short illustrated...

by J F Pinchon Rob Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945) was one of the more controversial architects of the modern movement and, along with Le Corbusier, the most influential figure in French ...

Published in 1973, this book offers in five chapters a review of new chairs, settees and beds, tables, office furniture, cabinets and shelves as well as nursery furniture...

Rietveld Meubels om zelf te maken - How to construct Rietveld Furniture, 1986. First Edition. Published by Academia Bruylant. Book with facsimile reproductions of work-drawings...

American Painted Furniture by Cynthia V.A. Schaffner and Susan Klein. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1997. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. An examination of A...

Jorge Zalszupin Modern Design in Brazil book by Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos published in Brazil in 2014 in Portuguese and English. Never published i...

The two volume first edition of Edwin Foley's sumptuously illustrated study of decorative furniture, in vibrant half morocco bindings. The first edition of this work, complete in tw...