A Century of Chair Design by Frank Russell, John Read on Mullen Books

A Century of Chair Design

Russell, Frank and John Read

New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1980. Hardcover. Gray paper boards with gold gilt lettering on spine, white illustrated dust jacket with black lettering, 160 pp., bw illustrations throughout. VG-/G+ (book has inscription from previous owner on front page, book shows minimal wear, all pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows some wear at corners, a few small tears along top of spine, and sticker residue on back, still protective). Item #182148
ISBN: 9780847802326

"This international survey traces the development of chair design in the century 1850-1950 as seen in the work of over sixty craftsmen, designers and architects including Alvar Aalto, the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer, Carlo Bugatti, Le Corbusier, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray, Hector Guimard, Josef Hoffmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mies van der Rohe, Morris and Co., Pel, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Richard Riemerschmid, Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Mart Stam, Thoney and Frank Lloyd Wright. A discussion of the work of each designer of firm is complemented by biographical information and illustrated with line drawings and photographs, both contemporary and specially commissioned. An introduction by Philippe Garner, together with a selected bibliography of further reading and an index of designers and manufacturers, make this an indispensible guide to modern chair design." - dust jacket description.