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... piece of furniture in its context - within a room , within a house . Out of this approach came pieces that have places assured in the pantheon of great furniture , right along- side those of prewar design giants Le Corbusier , Miës van ...
... piece of furniture in its context - within a room , within a house . Out of this approach came pieces that have places assured in the pantheon of great furniture , right along- side those of prewar design giants Le Corbusier , Miës van ...
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... pieces of the late 1940s and ' 50s . Saarinen continued to pursue the truly organic chair , a quest he had begun ... piece unity with the pedestal group in 1956 . In the closing moments of the Forties , sparks of new energy ignited in ...
... pieces of the late 1940s and ' 50s . Saarinen continued to pursue the truly organic chair , a quest he had begun ... piece unity with the pedestal group in 1956 . In the closing moments of the Forties , sparks of new energy ignited in ...
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... pieces , and uprights are all cut from a single piece of metal . ( Photo : Fritz Hansen ) STACKING CHAIRS / HANS WEGNER / C. 1949 Wegner is the foremost figure in the postwar revival of Danish cabinetry . His consummate craft is proof ...
... pieces , and uprights are all cut from a single piece of metal . ( Photo : Fritz Hansen ) STACKING CHAIRS / HANS WEGNER / C. 1949 Wegner is the foremost figure in the postwar revival of Danish cabinetry . His consummate craft is proof ...
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aluminum Alvar Aalto American architect architecture Arne Jacobsen Arts Décoratifs Bauhaus biomorphic Breuer Brooklyn Museum cabinet Carlo Mollino CHAIR/GEORGE CHAIRS/CHARLES Charles Eames Château Dufresne coffee table colors curves Danish decade Décoratifs de Montréal decoration DePree Eames's early Eero Saarinen Fifties Finn Juhl foam Formica free-form French Fritz Hansen furni furnishings furniture design George Nelson Giò Ponti glass Hans Wegner Herman Miller interior Isamu Noguchi Italian Kjaerholm Knoll International laminated lamp late 40s leather legs light Liliane Stewart Collection living room lounge manufacturing Mark Meachem materials metal Mid-Century Modern Modern Art modern furniture Musée des Arts Museum of Modern pedestal Philadelphia Museum Photo pieces plastic shell popular postwar produced Ray Eames rosewood Scandinavian sculptural seat shapes shell chairs sofa stacking Street-Porter Street-Porter/Downtown style taste tubular steel ture U.S. Distributor uphol upholstered upholstery Vladimir Kagan Wegner Wendell Lovett wire Womb chair wood wrought iron York
References to this book
Twentieth-century Furniture: Materials, Manufacture, and Markets Clive Edwards No preview available - 1994 |