American Contemporary Furniture
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789304929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work is currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Dung Ngo is an independent editor and curator. Marisa Bartolucci is the former executive editor of Metropolis magazine. She is the former editor of Design Book Review, and writes about architecture and design for n
Concise & Resourceful Ping Lim From the outset, this book is small compared with many other fine furniture books but its content doesn't lag behind & even surpasses many other offerings by its sheer resourefulness & succinctness. The layout could be defined as multi-media with clean fonts used, abundant of embossed pictures & diagrams used, highlighted quotes by prominent furniture designers. Even though this is an American Contemporary Furniture Book, which emphasises upon the trends of the West, the Middle, & the . Looking good Glen Helfand The sleek American Contemporary Furniture convincingly asserts that our tables, chairs, bookcases,and wastebaskets are looking mighty handsome these days. The visually rich project offers plenty of representative proof that the current generation of American furniture designers are coming into its own. The earnest and sometimes lighthearted examples of modernist-inflected pieces are grouped regionally. New York, of course, is a focus - with nods to superstars like Karim Rashid, Maya Li. A Customer said Under The Table. The content is worth only one star, but there are some nice photos, so I'll concede to two. Most of the book is conjecture, and opinion. There is very little evidence of any research going into this title. Not a single outside source, article or book is cited. I think you can learn more about contemporary American furniture design from browsing eBay furniture auctions or reading furniture store catalogs than reading this book.The only good content is the occasional biography of current
She is the former editor of Design Book Review, and writes about architecture and design for numerous publications, including ID magazine, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, and The New York Times.Raul Cabra is the principal of Cabra Diseño Editorial, an award-winning design studio and book packaging firm based in San Francisco, where he designs and develops content for books on design and popular culture. She is the author of Architecture + Design NYC and is currently working on a book about the making of Frank Gehry's masterwork, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and how it has changed the Basques.Cathy Lang Ho is an associate editor at Architecture magazine. About the AuthorMarisa Bartolucci is the former executive editor of Metropolis magazine. He is the former editor of exhibit
The most visually stimulating, cutting-edge presentation of contemporary furniture design in America ever published, this book presents in unprecedented graphic detail the work of the most promising American furniture designers of today and beyond. A sourcebook of great utility for the trade, it also serves as a tremendously informative guide for style-conscious consumers and students of design.. Here, as you view the extraordinary work of Portland, Maine's Angela Adams, New York City's Harry Allen and Karim Rashid, Minneapolis's Blu Dot Design, San Francisco's Jeff Covey-- and more than 70 others-- you'll discover why Americans have advanced to the forefront of the world's contemporary furniture design community