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Essays on Kitchens
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chmara.rosinke, Kunstgewerbe-Museum (Berlin; Text written by Anna Carnick, Klara Czerniewska, Olga Drenda, …
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As the third generation of specialized wood craftsmen in
cabinetmaking and restoration, Romeo Sozzi made his debut in
interior decoration in the 1970s. Since 1988, he and his three sons
have run his company, Promemoria, which has become not just a
producer of internationally high-profile furnishings but also a
laboratory of innovative design. This volume is a discovery of
Sozzi's world and work, the epitome of the refined Italian
lifestyle. The journey begins with the historical family home on
the banks of Lake Como, furnished throughout with a mixture of
one-off pieces, antique items, and fascinating collections that
include vintage automobiles, cameras, and objets d'art. The reader
will peruse the spaces where Sozzi works and explore his designs,
enter the space where he holds his legendary dinners, and admire
his collections. The book also surveys the company's impressive
production range, which has gained global recognition.
Maximizing reader insights into the principles of designing
furniture as wooden structures, this book discusses issues related
to the history of furniture structures, their classification and
characteristics, ergonomic approaches to anthropometric
requirements and safety of use. It presents key methods and
highlights common errors in designing the characteristics of the
materials, components, joints and structures, as well as looking at
the challenges regarding developing associated design
documentation. Including analysis of how designers may go about
calculating the stiffness and endurance of parts, joints and whole
structures, the book analyzes questions regarding the loss of
furniture stability and the resulting threats to health of the
user, putting forward a concept of furniture design as an
engineering processes. Creating an attractive, functional,
ergonomic and safe piece of furniture is not only the fruit of the
work of individual architects and artists, but requires an effort
of many people working in interdisciplinary teams, this book is
designed to add important knowledge to the literature for engineer
approaches in furniture design.
In Furniture with Soul, author David Savage explores the
philosophies, careers, and pivotal moments of struggle and
inspiration for today's most talented and influential woodworkers.
He traveled throughout the U.S. and Britain to interview these
renowned artists, including John Makepeace, John Cederquist, Jack
Larimore, Judy Kensley McKie, Michael Hurwitz, Tom Hucker, Rupert
Williamson, Gary Knox Bennett, and Peter Danko. With a telling eye
and refreshing intimacy, he reveals their thinking, creative
processes, and rise to prominence. He takes the reader into their
workshops and their hearts. Savage seeks to illuminate the soul of
the artists' work, and the influences and experiences that shaped
them.
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William W Fitzpatrick
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Sara Kristoffersson's compelling study provides the first sustained
critical history of IKEA. Kristoffersson argues that the company's
commercial success has been founded on a neat alignment of the
brand with a particular image of Swedish national identity - one
that is bound up with ideas of social democracy and egalitarianism
- and its material expression in a pared-down, functional design
aesthetic. Employing slogans such as "Design for everyone" and
"Democratic design", IKEA signals a rejection of the stuffy, the
'chintzy', and the traditional in both design practices and social
structures. Drawing on original research in the IKEA company
archive and interviews with IKEA personnel, Design by IKEA traces
IKEA's symbolic connection to Sweden, through its design output and
its promotional materials, to examine how the company both promoted
and profited from the concept of Scandinavian Design.
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apologize in advance for any 3:0FFICE unintentional omission and
would be pleased to insert the MACHINES 49 appropriate
acknowledgment in any subsequent edition of this publication.
AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to thank all those
manufacturers and designers who answered queries and 4: FURNITURE
AND searched through their archives, the supportive and
professional lIGHTING 61 staff at Conran Octopus and Sir Terence
Conran for his personal mterest and guidance. NOTE TO READER Names
of objects and designers printed in roman or bold type BIOGRAPHIES
72 denote that a photograph of the object or a biography of the
designer can be found elsewhere In the book. INDEX 80 6 HOME OFFICE
WORK/NG FROM HOMf Working from home is on the increase in Europe
and North Americo. A convergence of new technologies, economic
changes and social demands is dramaticolly reshaping the living
patterns which have dominated much of the twentieth centu
The study of furniture and its production is a window into both the
social position of its owner and the techniques and social
organization of the craftsmen. This book comprises an examination
and analysis of chairs, stools and footstools of the New Kingdom
(ca.1550-1069 B.C.) which are preserved in the Cairo Egyptian
Museum. The first chapter is dedicated to woodworking processes and
techniques of manufacturing chairs and stools. The second chapter
analyses the chairs, stools, and fragments that constitute the main
corpus of this study (131 pieces in total). The third chapter
focuses primarily on two-dimensional scenes and how these can
increase our understanding of the study objects. The fourth chapter
is devoted to a lexicographical analysis of the terms used to
designate different types of chairs, stools and footstools. This is
followed by a typological study of chairs and stools in the New
Kingdom based on actual pieces of furniture that my corpus includes
and those preserved in other collections.
The focus of this book is on functional seating, and the key
argument presented is that functional seating needs to assist the
person using it for the performance of seated tasks, enhance rather
than detract from the person's posture and health, and it needs to
provide aesthetic features that do not limit task or health. The
book spans the period 3000BC to 2000AD and presents largely Western
seating. This book is unique in its approach to seating because it
draws together evidence that relates to seating that facilitates
health and task while also addressing aesthetic factors. This
evidence creates an understanding of how seats may be designed to
not only promote bodily health but also allow functional
optimisation of sitting and seating. This book is important to
furniture and industrial designers, interior decorators,
architects, those teaching seat design, health professionals
attending and educating those who relax or work in the seated
position, furniture historians, and members of the general public
interested in the history of seating.
Way More Than A Bed On Stilts is written for the person or family
who is living in a crowded living space. It shows them more options
to cope with their pressing needs, through creative and practical
furnishings. If a strategy of life improvement includes basic
needs, plus education, organization and discipline, we must
accommodate those continually. Of course we need a bed, but we also
need to store our clothes in a ready to wear condition. Yes, we
need education, but we also need a place to study and an organized
way to store and access our study materials. If we lack a clothes
closet, or bureau, or a desk, organized storage, or the space for
it, we handicap ourselves Way More Than A Bed On Stilts can help
people overcome these types of limitations. This book contains a
21st century loft bed design. When built and used as designed, it
is safe; it exceeds all applicable safety standards. Please read
those standards and evaluate for yourself. This loft bed design is
very durable. It won't become shaky in a year or two. The frame
should serve for many years. It can be disassembled and reassembled
repeatedly to accommodate moving. This loft bed system is
incredibly useful: it features multiple options for built in desks,
shelving, drawers and containers. It accommodates clothes storage,
books, files, supplies, games and lighting. The design is modular;
the accessory options fit together in several combinations. On top
of all this, more than one may fit in a room This system is
designed for most of the electronic accoutrements of modern life.
This is the 21st century. Way More Than A Bed On Stilts is a
do-it-yourself project. If you are at all handy, you can build
this, while saving money. The sample configuration loft bed with a
desk, bureau, and closet rod cost about the same as a comparable
size bureau alone (excluding the mattress of course). This is
do-able for many people. Just follow the instructions and choose
wisely. You can do it
Brings together a superb collection of over 650 detailed examples
English furniture and needlework from 1600 to 1760 These volumes
are dedicated to one of the finest collections of early English
furniture and needlework, formed by Percival D. Griffiths
(1861-1937). Together with the noted authority, Robert W. Symonds,
Griffiths assembled a pioneering collection of early English
decorative arts: furniture, domestic needlework and related objects
all dating to the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth
centuries. The book illustrates nearly 700 pieces owned by
Griffiths and includes images of his interiors, and biographical
data on Griffiths. Catalogue entries provide color images,
exhibition histories, references, and provenance. These volumes
present a wealth of new information that will aid both the amateur
and connoisseur alike.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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