Chairs by Architects - Softcover

Toromanoff, Agata

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500292507 ISBN 13: 9780500292501

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2016

Synopsis

Revealing pairings of a chair and a building by each architect―featuring fifty-five stars from Calatrava to Hadid

Does an architect’s style always come across, regardless of medium? Pairing great buildings with great chairs by the same architect, Chairs by Architects demonstrates how the defining qualities of a building’s style can also be evident in that architect’s furniture designs. Pieces of furniture, like manifestos, become signatures of architectural style. The fifty-five architects featured here include early modern architectural pioneers such as Otto Wagner, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Antoni Gaudí, and Walter Gropius, together with more recent modern masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Daniel Libeskind.

The book contains interviews on Designing (in conversation with David Adjaye), Manufacturing (with David E. Bright, Knoll, Inc.), Selling (with Zeev Aram), Collecting (with Richard Wright), and Preserving (with Susanne Graner, Vitra Design Museum). This is essential reading for everyone concerned with design, architecture, and the relationship between creators and their creations.

125+ illustrations in color

About this title

About the Author:

Agata Toromanoff is an art and design historian. She has worked for collectors and galleries, and has curated and managed numerous contemporary art projects. As well as writing features for the art press, she is the author of Chairs by Architects.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0500292507
• ISBN 13: 9780500292501
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160