The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1858943027 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 189 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
David Hanks is consulting curator for design at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan. Pat Kirkham is a professor at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York. . About the Author Martin Eidelberg is professor emeritus of art history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. C.Ford Peatross is curator of the Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections, Prints and Photographs Division, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Thomas Hilne is a social, cultural and design historian and critic
Design Classic The book is surprisingly well-written with a detailed history of the design of chairs for the century from 1850 to 1950. Interesting reading!. Lounging about Robin At last a book about THAT chair. Thomas Hine, one of the contributors to this interesting book, writes a chapter about the way the chair kept popping up in all the right media and this probably helped it along to its iconic status. I was aware of the chair many years ago and kept seeing it in interior design photos, adverts, and anywhere that visually needed to proje. Wonderful book If you are an Eames Lounge Chair aficionado, this is the book for you. The text is well written and goes into great detail about the history of Ray & Charles, as well as many other designers from that era and the photographs are beautiful. I still don't have an original Lounge Chair, but this book helps to keep my hopes alive while I sit in my knock-off, half-destroy
The epitome of Modernist style and luxurious comfort, Charles and Roy Eames's leather-upholstered rosewood-veneered chair and matching ottoman is a design classic of the 20th century. Celebrating the lounge chair's 50th anniversary, this text explores it in its cultural, historical and social contexts.
Thomas Hilne is a social, cultural and design historian and critic. Pat Kirkham is a professor at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York. C.Ford Peatross is curator of the Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections, Prints and Photographs Division, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D