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| Modern Furniture Classics: From 1900 to Now | | Richly illustrated with more than 250 photographs, Modern Furniture Classics catalogs the passionate talents of international furniture designers and manufacturers from the 20th and 21st centuries. From the handmade vernacular styles of the Arts and Crafts Movement through today's experimental work, this chronological journey focuses on more than 240 classics of modern furniture design, including influential pieces by Philippe Starck, Henry van der Velde, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Matthew Rice, Frank Gehry and others. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1847328156
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| Pepe Andreu: Thinking Furniture | | Pepe Andreu is one of Spain's foremost furniture designers, famed for his reconciliation of contemporary forms with traditional artisanal materials. Each stage in the development of Andreu's mostly wood-based furniture is developed by the designer himself, from sketches to model to prototype construction. This volume surveys the output of his company to date. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8492841885
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| From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by Architects | | Product design is a design branch in its own right, but renowned architects often design their ideal furniture themselves. From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by Architects features an attractive range of sculptural, futuristic and functional design. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3863351274
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| Industrial Furniture: Prototypes of the Modern Era | | Industrial Furniture: Prototypes of the Modern Era looks at a unique and hitherto neglected aspect of furniture design: furniture made by workers and mechanics to serve an industrial function. In their strict orientation towards utility, these simple pieces of industrial furniture feature screwed together or welded iron plates, sheet metal, steel pipes and wooden boards. | astore.amazon.com/detail/3869842199
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| Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010 | | Design After Modernism offers an overview of developments in design over the past four decades—some evolutionary, some expected, and some extraordinary. It identifies the diverse influences that have generated new directions in design and illustrates many of the most characteristic, most noteworthy, and most innovative objects in this rich and variegated mix. All are representative of their time, and many of the earlier designs have already gained iconic status. Of the more recent ones, whether or not they will be admired in decades to come is something that only time will tell. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0393733041
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| Eero Saarinen: Objects and Furniture Design | | Despite the brevity of his career, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the most celebrated architects of his time. As an architect, Saarinen is responsible for some of the most potent architectural symbols of American identity including Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Published in Poligrafa's By Architect series, this volume surveys Saarinen's life and career. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8434312646
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| Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design | | Neglected in her lifetime, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century. Part of the By Architects series, Eileen Gray highlights the work of this singular designer-architect. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8434312654
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| Storage Furniture | | Storage Furniture shows dressing rooms, bookshelves, and different furniture where you can place, keep and even use to decorate your house. | astore.amazon.com/detail/6074370915
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| Adirondack Style | | The Adirondack Great Camps as well as their furnishings are some of the most iconic of American architecture and design. This is the definitive book on the style, architecture, design, and natural beauty of the Adirondack Great Camps. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0789322668
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| The Best Seller from Italy: Scavolini | | Scavolini has been Italy's favorite kitchen brand since 1984 and is now preparing to celebrate half a century of activity and market presence since its founding in 1962. High quality products and services, attention to clients' needs, competitive prices: these qualities led to Scavolini becoming the number one brand in the Italian kitchen unit sector; this prepared it for entry into international markets, and today the company boasts a presence in more than fifty countries and its name is synonymous with style and Italian design. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8857206319
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| The Century of Modern Design | | The Century of Modern Design is a comprehensive and chronological guide to artisanship around the world from 1900 to the present. It includes a broad spectrum of modern styles, from art deco and streamlining, through mid-century modern, to contemporary minimalism. | astore.amazon.com/detail/2080301616
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| The Story of Eames Furniture | | In this unique 2-volume, 800-page book with more than 2,500 images, Marilyn Neuhart tells the story to paraphrase Charles Eames himself of how Eames furniture got to be the way it is. | astore.amazon.com/detail/389955230X
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| Sourcebook of Scandinavian Furniture | | This book, the first American summary of modern Scandinavian design in more than two decades, updates the history of design in the Nordic nations, and illustrates more than 500 of the best current furniture from over 70 producers, most of them in full color. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0393731510
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| Design Secrets: Furniture | | Furniture design is a complex art. Traditionally, techniques of the craft have been passed down from master to apprentice, but these days that is less and less the case in contemporary design. This book, as with others in the Design Secrets series, takes readers into the studio and reveals tips and techniques as well as the inspiration that brought the concept to life. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1592534392
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| Eames: Furniture 1941-1978 | | Pioneers of the 1950s and of the optimistic American way of life, Charles and Ray Eames created the greatest modern furniture "classics" between 1941 and 1978. They designed more than 20 chair models, mostly unique pieces, and developed know-how in the art of sitting. | astore.amazon.com/detail/2843234204
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