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Philippe Starck : mobilier 1970-1987
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ISBN: 290701000X Year: 1987 Publisher: Marseille Michel Aveline Editeur


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Richard Neutra Möbel : der Körper und die Sinne
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ISBN: 9783803032171 3803032172 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tübingen [u.a.] Wasmuth


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Verner Panton
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ISBN: 395215220X Year: 1998 Publisher: Basle Basler Zeitung

Starck
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ISBN: 2870093322 9782870093320 Year: 1988 Volume: vol *97 Publisher: Bruxelles Liège Pierre Mardaga


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Pierre Chareau : architecte, un art intérieur
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ISBN: 2858507368 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris Editions du Centre Pompidou

Jean Prouvé
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ISBN: 2909187047 Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris Galerie Jousse Seguin - Galerie Enrico Navarra


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Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living Things
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ISBN: 9780262047425 026204742X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by the advent of World War I, had become an important modern architect. This, however, the first English-language book on Riemerschmid, celebrates his understudied legacy as a designer of everyday objects--furniture, tableware, clothing--that were imbued with an extraordinary sense of vitality and even personality. Freyja Hartzell makes a case for the importance of Riemerschmid's designed objects in the development of modern design--and for the power of everyday things to change the way we live our lives, understand history, and design our future. Hartzell offers for the first time an interpretive history of Riemerschmid's design practice embedded in a fresh examination of modernism told by the objects themselves. Hartzell explores Riemerschmid's early drawings, paintings, and prints; his interiors and housewares, which represent a modernist shift from exclusive image to accessible object; his designs for women's clothing; his immensely popular wooden furniture; his serially produced ceramics and their appeal to German nationalism of the period; and his complex and compelling pattern designs for textiles and wallpapers, the only part of his creative practice that spanned his entire career. Riemerschmid, Hartzell writes, was at his most inventive, playful, and free when designing things for everyday use. His uniquely designed forms allow us to recognize the utilitarian object not just as a tool but as an individual being--a thing with a soul.


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Willy Guhl : Thinking with Your Hands
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ISBN: 9783037787151 3037787155 Year: 2023 Publisher: Zürich Lars Müller Publishers

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As a pioneer of modern design, Willy Guhl created world-famous furniture such as the Eternit garden chair or Europe’s first plastic shell chair. In the tradition of modernism and against the traditional “Heimatstil”, he developed a holistic design approach oriented to human beings and their needs. Functionality and reduction to the essential characterize his everyday objects. For companies such as Dietiker, Eternit and Aebi, Willy Guhl designed seating furniture, planters and mowing machines. Willy Guhl’s designs and his teaching methods bear witness to the innovations of the booming design industry of the post-war period and the changing professional image of the industrial designer. As a teacher, he influenced generations of Swiss designers. This first comprehensive monograph illuminates Willy Guhl’s legacy in the context of this design and teaching practice as well as current theories of the design discipline. As a thematically structured catalog of works, it offers a complete index of all design projects.


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Christophe Gevers
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ISBN: 9782960292749 296029274X Year: 2024 Publisher: Brussels: Creative Communication ,

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Christophe Gevers, the eponymous monograph devoted to the creative universe of Christophe Gevers, offers a unique look at the known and lesser-known worlds of one of the greatest interior designers and Belgian furniture creators of the second half of the twentieth century. The book, which brings Christophe Gevers out of the shadows, is divided into five main sections: Houses; The master and his students; Interiors; The restaurants; The designer —furniture, lighting and objects. The texts are essentially based on testimonies from relatives, clients, professionals, collaborators and former students. From 1959 to 1993 Christophe Gevers left indeed his atypical mark on thirty-three classes at the famous La Cambre art school, within the Mobilier & Agencement workshop. A brutalist before his time, Gevers was uncompromising about the quality of the materials he chose so that they would last and embellish over time.

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