Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847821676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 164 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sitting on the Edge has a wider geographic range and includes some other furniture, but it is basically a look at how designers responded to 20th-century architecture through chair design. A number of short essays by distinguished curator-authors discuss the role of design in modern life and explore the chair as an exemplar of design. Each chair is illustrated with multiple photographs and sometimes by line drawings as well. Danish Chairs, as an intensive examination of a more limited area, will be of most interest to art and design libraries, while Sitting on the Edge will appeal to a broader spectrum of libraries.ADavid McClelland, Philadelphia Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Chairs are often considered especially revealing of a designer's skill because of the strict limits placed on their design by the demands of the human body. . In addition, biographical information is supplied for the designers
Michael Boyd is a recording artist and composer for film and television.Aaron Betsky is curator of architecture and design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Paola Antonelli is associate curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Philippe Garner is senior director of applied arts for Sotheby's and is based in London.
Accompanying an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this bok spans the 20th century as it showcases the work of modern masters ranging from Peter Behrens, Otto wagner, and Gerrit Rietveld, throug LeCorbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, to Wendell Castle, Donald Judd, and Marco Zanuso.Sitting on the Edge will delight and inform design professionals as well as anyone with a passion for style.. One hundred chairs, couches, other seating furniture, and objects from what is perhaps the most important and comprehensive collection of modernist furniture in priate ha
Sitting on the edge of a great book Harold Hollingsworth Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design, is a well put together book, and a rare find in modern furnishing circles. A great review of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd's collection, which as one can see by the list, is stunning. The pictures of the pieces in the collection though are the catch all. Full page photographs, beautiful type, well laid out, and a great collection at one's finger tips, I personally couldn't ask for more, except perhaps the actual pieces of furniture in the collection. If you love Modernist furniture, go with this one!. excellent book im a art student. this book goes in details about many famouse artists and their chairs. well described chairs and detailed info always make a good conversational piece.