Books: Fifty Chairs That Changed the World
Fifty Chairs That Changed The World lists the top 50 chairs that have made a substantial impact in the world of design today. It includes design classics from Thonet’s 1870 Side Chair to Konstantin Grcic’s Chair_One. It is possible to trace a remarkable complete history of design in the last 150 years through a sequence of chairs. The Design Museum values its collection of contemporary chairs, and this book provides an introduction into 50 of the key chairs that have shaped the story of design.
Fifty Chairs That Changed the World - The Design Museum, Hardback, 202 x 152 mm,
112 Pages, Published by Conran Octopus Ltd,
ISBN: 9781840915402
Buy it here: Amazon
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Sotheby’s Auction: Kònò Society Mask
Exhibition: Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design
3 Responses to
“Books: Fifty Chairs That Changed the World”
Post a comment
Design Icons
Fjordfiesta Scandia Senior
by Hans Brattrud
A Norwegian furniture design classic from 1957, Scandia Senior is a comfortable high-back easy chair with a leather head cushion, on a satin swivel base. [more...]
Suggested Reading
MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
A unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Cars
Freedom Style Sex Power Motion Colour Everything. This lavish and beautifully designed book is the gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
The Eames Lounge Chair
The book examines the evolution of a design icon and places it in its cultural, historical and social context. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Marcel Wanders
Behind the Ceiling is the first monograph on one of the most influential, prolific and celebrated international designers today. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
The Design Hotels Book
Indispensable directory of impressive hotels and destinations for those who like to travel in style. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Editor's Picks
Vitra Polygon Wall Clock
George Nelson’s clocks embody the joie de vivre of the 1950s, Polygon clock is made from solid walnut with Quartz clockwork. Collection Vitra Design Museum. [more...]
More Books
Case Study Houses
“It’s a huge coffee-table book, which analyses each of the houses in chronological order, with plans, sketches and glorious photographs.” [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Wonderwall: Masamichi Katayama
introducing over forty recent projects by Japan’s hottest retail designer with an extraordinary selection of interior designs for boutiques and retail outlets. [more...]
Buy it Here: Amazon
The U.N. Building
Symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War. More than 50 years on, the 39-story building is regarded as one of the pinnacles of mid-century modernism. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Loblolly House
Including a DVD of the film "A House in the Trees", a real-time documentary of the design, fabrication, and assembly of this amazing house. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Desire
The Shape of Things to Come. An up-to-date comprehensive survey on furniture and object design today, showcasing the crème de la crème of designers. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Moholy: Vision in Motion
New Bauhaus founder László Moholy-Nagy was a painter, typographer, photographer, stage designer, and architect... one of the most creative intelligences of our time. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
How to Wrap Five Eggs
A mid-60s classic of Japanese design. Stunningly laid-out paean to traditional Japanese packaging is rife with sumptuous black and white photos of all manner of boxes, wrappers and containers that appear at once homely and sophisticated, ingeniously utilitarian yet fine and rare. [more...]
Buy it here: Amazon
Follow Daily Icon on Kindle
Get the same great Daily Icon content delivered to your Kindle. All Kindle subscriptions start with a 14-day free trial.
Buy it here: Amazon
Daily Icon features extraordinary Designers, Architecture and Products, with a special focus on furniture, accessories and lighting for the home.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Libeskind’s pretentious “Spirit House Chair” hardly changed the world. The only thing it is likely to generate is back problems. It is a joke.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:48 am
The only thing that is a joke is that you think that a chair’s design should be solely about comfort. The mere fact that you’re talking about it means that it has generated controversy, which is what all good design does.
January 26th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Harrison: I don’t really understand why you think all good design is aimed at generating controversy? Solving problems is the general idea, surely, which seems completely opposed to generating controversy. Maybe if the problem is the lack of controversy over a specific political or social issue, then I would understand, but the aim of designing a good chair cannot be to cause controversy?