By James Christopher Postell
The finished advisor to furnishings layout— elevated and updated
Furniture designers draw on quite a number wisdom and disciplines to create their paintings. From heritage to idea to know-how, Furniture Design deals a finished survey of the basic craft- and practice-related facets of furnishings design.
Generously illustrated with images and drawings—including a brand new colour section—this Second Edition good points up-to-date insurance of fabric necessities, eco-friendly layout, electronic layout, and fabrication applied sciences. It additionally gains twenty-five case experiences of furnishings layout that signify a huge collection of works, designers, and strategies, together with contemporary designs produced in the final decade.
The publication explores:
- Furniture functionality and social use
- Form, spatial association, and typological orders
- Structural integrity and composition
- Accessibility, common layout, human elements, and ergonomics
- The layout approach, from schematics via fabrication
- Materials, techniques, and techniques of fabrication
- Professional perform and marketing
- The background of furnishings layout, from prehistory to the electronic age
Complete with a thesaurus of phrases and a finished bibliography, Furniture layout, moment Edition is a one-stop source that furnishings designers will flip to usually for the recommendation, counsel, and knowledge had to practice their craft.
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3). 3 Human figure seated. Sketch by Gil Born. Conventionally, furniture serves to keep people and activities off the ground. Even sleeping bags and picnic blankets offer some degree of separation from the moisture, dirt, and temperature of the ground. 4). Before we focus on furnishings that support the body for various purposes above the ground, consider how people enjoy sitting, resting, working, and sleeping on the ground. 4 Clusters of people sitting and lying on the grass. Photography by Jim Postell, 2006.
While some people hold books and folded newspapers in their hands; others read with the pages lying flat on a table. 3). 3 Human figure seated. Sketch by Gil Born. Conventionally, furniture serves to keep people and activities off the ground. Even sleeping bags and picnic blankets offer some degree of separation from the moisture, dirt, and temperature of the ground. 4). Before we focus on furnishings that support the body for various purposes above the ground, consider how people enjoy sitting, resting, working, and sleeping on the ground.
To those students who have participated in my furniture design seminar at the university and in taking the course, have documented and analyzed, or designed and fabricated working prototypes of furniture, you have been a continued source of inspiration, knowledge, and joy for me as an educator. The numerous visits to galleries and museums that have furniture among their collections, here in the States and abroad, have been a significant resource for research. I am grateful to the Mingei International Museum in San Diego; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MOMA in New York; the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Pompidou Center, Musée d’Arts Décoratifs, Musée du Louvre, and Musée D’Orsay in Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen.