Furniture + architecture / guest-edited by Edwin Heathcote.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heathcote, Edwin.

Series:

Architectural design profile ; 158.

Profile ; no. 158

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architect-designed furniture.

Furniture design.

Architecture, Industrial.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Furniture plus architecture

Furniture and architecture

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, Eng. : Wiley-Academy, 2002.

Summary:

Architects have been responsible for many of the modern furniture classics of the 20th century - Mies's Barcelona Chair, Eileen Gray's side table and Corb's Chaise longue. Today, young architects are also forging a place for themselves in furniture design. "Furniture and Architecture" takes a unique look at the close relationship between these two disciplines and also looks to the future, with an international array of designers giving their tips for the top young architect-designers.

- Includes comprehensive articles and images of popular modernist architects such as Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saariven and Erno Goldfinger. - Interviews with architects Alvaro Siza, David Adjaye and Selfridges director Vittore Radice - Contains a directory of specialist retailers selling architect-designed furniture.

Contents:

Erno Goldfinger: The Architect as Furniture Designer / Rebecca Milner 7

Pure Form Only? Observations on the Relationship Between Mies van der Rohe's Furniture and Buildings / Mateo Kries 14

Max Bill: Simplicity and Ordinariness / Edwin Heathcote 17

Oxford's 'Best Motel': the Dining Room at St Catherine's College, Oxford / Sarah Jackson 22

American Moderns: Eero Saarinen and his Circle / Jayne Merkel 26

Look at Me, Look at Me, Look at Me / Neil Cummings 34

Alvaro Siza: Tradition, Modernism and the Banal / Edwin Heathcote 38

Preferential Treatments: John Pawson Recommends the Work of AG Fronzoni and Maarten van Severen / John Pawson 42

Four Projects by David Adjaye: The Concept of Furniture / Peter Allison 46

The Cultural Divide / Alison Brooks 54

Home/Furnishings / Gans & Jelacic 63

Light. Knob. Felt. Things: a Chat with Tom Emerson of 6A about 'the World of Stuff' / Edwin Heathcote 72

Superlegible Furniture or 'We like junk' / Plant Architect Inc 78

Item Design Laboratory: Love Seats for Virginia Woolf and Lady Furniture / IDL 80

Ali Tayar: Furniture as Structure / Jayne Merkel 81

Architects and Furniture: a Twentieth-Century Story / Alan Powers 84

Interview with Vittorio Radice of Selfridges / Edwin Heathcote 90

Stockists details 95

The New Paradigm and September 11th: Peter Eisenman in conversation with Charles Jencks 98

Interior Eye: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, New York Times Building / Craig Kellogg 107

Practice Profile: Ocean North / Christopher Hight 110

Engineering Exegesis: Energy in Use / Max Fordham 116

Building Profile: Venissieux Mediatheque / Jeremy Melvin 122

Site Lines: Mr Greyson's Cabinet of Wonders / Sean Stanwick 125

Interview with Ivan Margolius / Abigail Grater 126.

Notes:

Published as part of Architectural design, v. 72, no. 4 (July 2002).

ISBN:

0470845686

OCLC:

50487586