Product Description

Twentieth-Century Furniture is an authoritative, passionate and beautifully illustrated guide to the multifarious talents of international furniture designers and manufacturers of the past 100 years, and revels in the intrinsic beauty of skilfully crafted pieces. The explosion in styles, initiated by technical progress and fashions in architecture, design and interiors, is catalogued in this chronological overview of the century's masterpieces, from the handmade vernacular styles of the Arts and Crafts Movemetn and Art Deco, through the early Modernists to the colourful and chaotic world of Pop Art, and finally to today's innovative and experimental designs. With over 230 classics of modern design, Twentieth-Century Furniture features the work of the world's most influential and talented designers, including Philippe Starck, Henry van der Velde, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Alver Aalto, Carlo Mollino, Charles and Ray Eames, David Linley, Matthew Rice, Frank Gehry, Tom Dixon and Ron Arad. Written by Fiona and Keith Baker, experts in the field of furniture design, and richly illustrated with over 230 photographs, Twentieth-Century Furniture is an accessible and authoritative celebration of 100 years of design.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #641896 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
Keith Baker is an independent consultant, valuer and international lecturer of nineteenth- and twentieth-century decorative arts. He was previously the head of the Art Nouveau and Decorative Arts Department at Phillips Auctioneers, and has also worked at Sotheby's, London. For many years he has been a consultant to the Miller's antique guides, recently acting as specialist consultant to Miller's Collecting Pottery and Porcelain and Miller's Antiques Encyclopedia. Keith is in his fifth series of BBC's perennially popular Antiques Roadshow (UK). Fiona Baker was a valuer and cataloguer of twentieth-century applied arts for Phillips Auctioneers, London, where she specialized in furniture. She has made television and radio appearances, and has contributed to The Antique Collector (UK).

Customer Reviews

A wide range of contemporary furniture from the last century
As a design student, this book has proved to be very useful, with a very wide range of contemporary furniture. It includes many famous names, and each example of furniture takes a full page with a large colour image and some background information. It also includes some brief information on twentieth century furniture through the different fashionable stages of the last 100 years. An essential book for any other furniture or interior student in terms of quality colour pictures.

A look at the furniture that defines the twentieth century
A brilliant book that starts at Art Nouveau and finishes at the Millennium. It has full page images and descriptions of all the types of furniture, in a clear and easy to follow form. An absolute must to those furniture lovers - this one will be a family treasure for now and years to come!