100 Modern Chairs

Pull up a chair (or 100) for this midcentury design showcase. Here is a stylish guide to the top 100 most interesting, most controversial, or simply most beautiful chairs designed between 1930 and 1970. Get to know the designers of the Modern era, including the Eames, Jacobsen, Nakashima, Noguchi, Wegner, and many more, through their creative and unique chair designs. With notes on materials, manufacturers, and construction, entertaining quotes by designers and fans about each chair, a brief biography of each designer, the stories behind the designs, and even a ‘chair timeline’ showcasing the very best of European, Scandinavian, Japanese, and American design, 100 Midcentury Chairs And Their Stories is a must for Midcentury enthusiasts and design history fans everywhere.

This updated edition features designs from 1800 up to present day, and features the biggest names in furniture design, art, architecture and craft.

DIVA noted furniture designer discusses functional and aesthetic elements of more than 40 "classic" modern chairs. Profusely illustrated with photographs and explanatory drawings. /div

A little book redesigning the shape and the role of the chair, adapting it to different people, personalities and body features.Interior design, illustration, comics and sociology all in one book.

Rustic or refined, traditional or whimsical, functional or just plain fun, these imaginative thrones, rockers and chaises have one thing in common; more than merely places to sit, they are sculptural works of art. The work of today's top furniture artists, will charm, provoke and inspire you and make you rethink the very meaning of 'chair'.

A comprehensive retrospective of furniture design in the past 150 years. 900 illustrations