Prize Designs for Modern Furniture (Book)

This soft backed catalogue was produced for an exhibition at Fischer Fine Art, London, Which was to show the development of the design of modern furniture from the early years of the...

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...

A prominent European architect traces the development of furniture from the early nineteenth century to the present, reappraising the milestones of modern design. Unsurpassed as an overview of 150 years of furniture design, 'The History of Modern Furniture...

Modern Danish Furniture is the third volume of a series of books on modern Danish applied art. This volume, like the earlier ones, is edited by the Danish architect Esbjorn Hiort, M.A.A., who has written the introduction. While Danish silver and Danish ceramics have long been well known and in great demand in foreign countries - especially among collectors - it has only been during the past ten years or so that Danish furniture has gained an international reputation. In his introduction, the author describes the modern development in this field, explains the reasons for the high artistic and technical standard of Danish furniture, and points out the characteristic details of the work of the leading Danish furniture designers. In the picture section there are numerous illustrations of unique pieces of the cabinet-maker's art as well as of fine examples of Danish commercial furniture...

The International Design Yearbook 7, edited by Andrée Putman. Published in 1992, first edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages. The seventh installment in this celebrated ser...

Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 by Christopher Wilk. Victoria & Albert Museum, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Modernism: Designing a New World" is the first book to ex...

Rare, vintage hardback coffee table book cataloguing 1990's international furniture design. By the editors of the PBC International, published in 1991. First edition, 240 pages. "Th...

- 1965 - designer : Miroslav Rada - Artia Praha - English version - original condition, see the photos - 207 pages - many beautiful pictures - jr.