Atlas of Furniture Design

Mit dem »Atlas des Möbeldesigns« veröffentlicht das Vitra Design Museum das neue Grundlagenwerk zur Geschichte des modernen Möbeldesigns. Der inhaltliche Bogen der Publikation reicht von den Anfängen der Industrialisierung bis zum digitalen Zeitalter, das heute auch im Möbeldesign eine zunehmend größere Rolle spielt. Mit Inhalten aus über 20 Jahren Forschung und mehr als 1.000 Seiten ist der »Atlas« das umfassendste Buch, das je zu diesem Thema publiziert wurde. Er dokumentiert 1.740 Objekte von über 540 Designern und enthält mehr als 2.800 Abbildungen. Über 550 Texte liefern detailgenaue Objektanalysen, Essays zu vier großen historischen Epochen beschreiben den soziokulturellen und designhistorischen Kontext der gezeigten Objekte. Hinzu kommt ein umfangreicher Anhang mit Designerbiografien, Informationsgrafiken, Bibliografien sowie Hersteller- und Materialglossar. All dies macht das Werk zu einer unverzichtbaren Quelle für Sammler, Wissenschaftler und Experten und nicht zuletzt zu einem bestechend gestalteten Buch für Designliebhaber auf der ganzen Welt.

Autorentext

Edited by Mateo Kries, Henrike Büscher, Jochen Eisenbrand. Texts by Mateo Kries, Henrike Büscher, Jochen Eisenbrand, Fulvio Ferrari, Otakar Máčel, Jane Pavitt, Ingeborg de Roode, Arthur Rüegg, Deyan Sudjic, Wolf Tegethoff, Carsten Thau and Kjeld Vindum, Gerald W.R. Ward, among others.

Klappentext

In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the »Atlas of Furniture Design«, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design. Featuring over 1700 objects by more than 500 designers and 121 manufacturers, it includes approximately 2800 images ranging from detailed object photographs to historical images documenting interiors, patents, brochures, and related works of art and architecture. The basis for the »Atlas of Furniture Design« is the collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind with more than 7000 works. The book presents selected pieces by the most important designers of the last 230 years and documents key periods in design history, including early nineteenth-century industrial furniture in bentwood and metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces and works by protagonists of classical modernism and postwar design, as well as postmodern and contemporary pieces. The »Atlas of Furniture Design« employed a team of more than 70 experts and features over 550 detailed texts about key objects. In-depth essays provide socio-cultural and design-historical context to four historical epochs of furniture design and the pieces highlighted here, enriched by a detailed annex containing designer biographies, glossaries, and elaborate information graphics. The »Atlas of Furniture Design« is an indispensable resource for collectors, scholars and experts, as well as a beautifully designed object that speaks to design enthusiasts.

Zusammenfassung
From the Vitra Design Museum a 1,000-page book that will deliver the most comprehensive overview on the history of furniture design ever published

The publication will document some 1,691 objects, 550 of them accompanied by detailed texts. The project has involved a team of over 70 authors and features roughly 2,595 images, from high-quality object photographs to reproductions of historical documents such as brochures, patents, interiors or reference works in art or architecture. The basis for the Atlas of Furniture Design is the furniture collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind in the world with more than 6,400 pieces of furniture as well as the estates of such design legends as Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard, George Nelson and others. The collection comprises pieces by the most significant designers and manufacturers of the past 200 years. It includes early industrial furniture in bentwood or metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces, protagonists of classical modernism like Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, Charlotte Perriand or Marcel Breuer, postwar figures such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin or Gae Aulenti but also postmodern and contemporary designers like Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders or Konstantin Grcic.