• Introduction Bodyguards / Ron Arad Associates Sculpt furniture / Maarten Baas Lum lamp / Emmanuel Babled Units / Emmanuel Babled The De La Warr Pavilion chair / Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby Jawbone Bluetooth headset / Yves Behar/fuseproject Leaf light / Yves Behar/fuseproject One Laptop Per Child XO Computer / Yves Behar/fuseproject Steelwood chair / Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Viagem tableware / Fernando Brizio Part tables / Handmade furniture / Stephen Burks Light as Air lamps / Paul Cocksedge OnlyOne bathroom mixer / Lorenzo Damiani Entropia light / Lionel T. Dean Holy Ghost chair / Lionel T. Dean (* new) EPS Chair / Tom Dixon Karbon Articulating Kitchen Faucet / Niels J. Eilmus (* new) Speedglas
• 9100 welding helmet / Ergonomidesign (* new) Chair First / Stefano Giovannoni The Long
• 8 Chair / Natanel Gluska Miura stool / Konstantin Grcic Segesta chair / Alfredo Haberli Spun Chair / Heatherwick Studio (* new) 3D Knit / Yoshiki Hishinuma Stardust vases / Setsu & Shinobu Ito One Liner bowls / Tavs JA rgensen Breeding Tables / My Private Sky plates / Reed Kram & Clemens Weisshaar Bone chaise / Bone chair / Joris Laarman Pewter Stool / Max Lamb Amphora / Made by Bees Honeycomb Vases / TomaA' Gabzdil Libertiny S Table / Xavier Lust X3 chair / Marco Maran Micarta chair / Marc Newson B.M. Horse Chair / Satyendra Pakhale Cobi chair / PearsonLloyd in conjuction with Steelcase Design Studio (* new) DBO commode / PearsonLloyd (* new) Tavolone table / Gaetano Pesce Talak light / Neil Poulton Kapsel Media Center / Propeller Digital projects / rAndom International Bokka lamp / Karim Rashid BODiBEAT MP3 player / Toshihiko Sakai Spider
• 1 &
• 2 hard-disk DVD recorders / Toshihiko Sakai Sonic Fabric / Alyce Santoro Halley light / Richard Sapper Bellflower lamp / Wieki Somers Chasen lamp / Patricia Urquiola Orchid
• 5 fabric / Eugene van Veldhoven Mandala light / Alessandro Mendini Pane chair / Tokujin Yoshioka Glossary Index.
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This book provides an in-depth study of the creative and manufacturing processes behind 50 contemporary domestic design objects. Chosen from around the world, they span furniture, lighting, tableware and textiles. The work of both long-established and emerging designers is featured, with each product selected for its significant use of new technology, unorthodox or complex production process, use of innovative materials (or traditional materials adapted in new and unexpected ways) and, in some cases, for the creative concept behind it. Each project is presented through explanatory text as well as inspirational image, sketch, detail shots of production processes and the completed product. A glossary of production methods is also included. Process offers students and professional designers alike an interesting and useful insight into how products are designed. This revised edition contains six new projects.
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• bk.
• 1. The early years
• bk.
• 2. The Herman Miller age.

• v. 1. Text
• v. 2. Plates.

One of the most influential books on colour ever published, Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened colour plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers' unique approach to complex principles. While the original publication has long been out of print, this beautiful new edition now brings Interaction back into classrooms, studios, and on to bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. Lavishly produced as a two-volume slipcased set, this book replicates Albers' revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as colour relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of colour, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of colour. Also included for the first time are new studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist's students in the early 1960s. A celebration of Albers' legendary achievements, this beautiful publication is an essential addition to any serious art library.
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In "Rethinking Sitting", the designer best known for the Tripp Trapp chair offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs. Peter Opsvik designs beautiful seating that allows as many different sitting postures as possible and makes it easy to move and change frequently between them. "Rethinking Sitting" presents abundant drawings and photographic examples drawn from Opsvik's wide-ranging body of work along with text explaining his unconventional seating solutions. "Rethinking Sitting" contains useful information for everyone who, for professional, educational or personal reasons, is interested in sitting solutions-as all of us who live in a sedentary society should be.
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• Introduction / Craig Nutt
• The chairs
• About the juror
• Contributing artists.

These chairs aren't made just for sitting down - they're pieces of art meant to delight the eyes, stretch the imagination and occasionally tickle the fancy! From classic forms to groundbreaking creations from modern innovators, this new entry in this series presents a dazzling collection of contemporary chairs from today's leading furniture makers. Internationally recognised furniture designer Craig Nutt has selected the breathtaking examples - by such respected names as Garry Knox Bennett (two ladder-back chairs) and Andrew Muggleton (his "Balustrade Chaise"). Judy Kensley McKie contributes a cool "Monkey Chair" in walnut and bronze and Gord Peteran's "Electric Chair" comes in tubular steel...and features a light-bulb!.
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• Advanced polymer cantilever chair, PearsonLloyd, Luke Pearson, Tom Lloyd
• Boson chair, Studio Patrick Norguet, Patrick Norguet
• Buttercup chair, Blu Dot Design and Manufacturing, John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, Charles Lazor
• Cikrak chair, Adrien Gardère
• Corallo chair, Estudio Campana, Fernando Campana, Humberto Campana
• Decompression space chair, Matali Crasset Productions, Matali Crasset
• Dora chair, Palomba Serafini Associati, Roberto Palomba, Ludovica Palomba
• Facett chair, Ronan Bouroullec, Erwan Bouroullec
• Flow chair, Monica Förster Design Studio, Monica Förster
• Flower offering chair, Atelier Satyendra Pakhalé, Satyendra Pakhalé
• Fresh fat chair, Tom Dixon
• Glide chair, CCD, Christopher Deam
• Lazy chair, Studio Urquiola, Patricia Urquiola
• MT series, Ron Arad Associates, Ron Arad
• Muu chair, Friends of Industry, Harri Koskinen
• Osorom, Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design, Konstantin Grcic
• Sfera chair, Claesson Koivisto Rune Arkitektkontor, Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, Ola Rune
• Stradivarius chair, Matt Sindall Design, Matt Sindall
• Supernatural chair, Lovegrove Studio, Ross Lovegrove
• Tilt resin chair, em, Emmanuel Cobbet, Mark Yeber
• Topografi, Jonas Wannfors Designs DSDB, Jonas Wannfors
• Calder's table, Parallel Design, Ali Tayar
• Float table, Ana Franco
• Low down table, Jenkins Design and Development, Jeff Jenkins
• Not so soft table and chairs, Readymade Projects, Inc., Stephen Burks
• Origami table, Michael Wolfson Design, Michael Wolfson
• Shell table, Barber Osgerby, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
• Solid series, Agence Patrick Jouin, Patrick Jouin
• Laurel bench, TZ Design, Mark Goetz
• Park Lane bench, Dahlstrom Design, Björn Dahlstrom
• Rocks, L Design, Arik Levy
• Swiss benches, or Los Bancos Suizos, Alfredo Häberli Design and Development, Alfredo Häberli
• Aspen sofa, Studio Massaud, Jean-Marie Massaud
• Comet sofa, Vladimir Kagan Design Group, Inc., Vladimir Kagan
• Crescent moon sofa, Andrée Putman
• Fritz sofa, Fels Design, Sarah Fels
• Iso sofa system, Michael Sodeau Partnership, Michael Sodeau
• Trix sofa, Lissoni Associati, Piero Lissoni
• Vero sofa, Christian Biecher & Associates
• Marshmellow, Lebello USA, Lars Dahmann
• Sputnik desk, Orange
• 22 Design Lab, LLC, Dario Antonini
• Lo-borg cabinet, Dine Murphy Wood, Nick Dine
• Boogie woogie shelving system, Giovanni Design, Stefano Giovannoni
• Exploding log shelving unit, Chris Lehrecke Furniture
• Layout bookcase, aMDL Srl, Michele De Lucchi
• Three: a shelving project, Jakob+Macfarlane, Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane
• Paper softwall, Molo Design, Stephanie Forsythe, Todd MacAllen
• Davos bed, Theo Williams
• Lublin daybed, Mebel Furniture, Jacek Ostoya
• Landscape
• 05 chaise, CDS/Consultants for Design Strategy, Jeffrey Bernett
• Directory of contributors.

Furniture design is a complex art. Traditionally, techniques of the craft have been passed down from master to apprentice, but these days that is less and less the case in contemporary design. Students are now required to take courses and figure out much of it themselves. This book, as with others in the Design Secrets series, takes readers into the studio and reveals tips and techniques as well as the inspiration that brought the concept to life.Many graphic and product designers are crossing into furniture design, including Karim Rashid, a designer of product, space, light, and fashion, and Todd Oldham, a photographer, graphic designer, product designer, interior designer, and influence in film/video and TV. Oldham is now the star designer at Lazy Boy--a company that has experienced a remarkable rebirth and revamp.Design Secrets: Furniture shadows similar success stories by showcasing award-winning furniture designs from around the world. Each profile is complete with sketches, notes, and interim iterations revealing how the final piece came to be.
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Expanded and updated, with over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of furniture or fixture, this is the guidebook for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials and dimensions.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780393731705 20160528

• Introduction 6-- Materials and Tools 8-- Finding furniture 10-- Tools 14-- Upholstery materials 18-- Fabrics for upholstery 22-- Texture 24-- Colour 26-- Patterns 28-- Contrasts 30-- Finishes and trimmings 34-- Basic Techniques 36-- Planning order of work 38-- Stripping back 40-- Webbing 42-- Applying hessian 44-- Top stuffing 45-- Over stuffing 48-- Springing 53-- Stuffing, with springs 57-- Deep buttoning 60-- Estimating upholstery fabric 64-- Applying upholstery fabric 68-- Applying finishes and trimmings 72-- Making cushions 75-- Upholstered Furniture 78-- Harp-backed dining chair 80-- Arts and Crafts dining chair 84-- Balloon-backed dining chair 86-- Arts and Crafts easy chair 90-- Sofa 94-- Button-backed chair 98-- Leather club chairs 104-- French chairs 110-- Wing chair 114-- G-plan chair 122-- Box stool 128-- Ottoman 134-- 70s "Flower" stool 138-- Footstool with fitted cover 142-- Footstool with loose cover 144-- Screen 146-- Simple headboard 150-- Elaborate headboard 154-- Reference 156-- Knots 158-- Stitches 160-- Cuts, folds, and corners 164-- Suppliers directory 168-- Index 172-- Acknowledgments 176.
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In eye-capturing style New Upholstery gives you everything you need, and more, in order to prepare and inspire you to create beautifully upholstered furniture, beginning with sections on finding furniture, tools, materials, and fabrics - including finishes and trimmings, which are often the make-or-break of a piece. With special photography throughout, basic techniques are illustrated step by step, from stripping back to top stuffing to making cushions, before the reader is taken through 18 projects covering such differing items as an Arts and Crafts easy chair, a large Victorian sofa, a box stool, and headboards. Beautiful technical illustrations and a suppliers directory complete this practical guide. Presented with clarity and vibrancy and with text by an author passionate about the beauty of furniture, whether you plan to give a new lease of life to a shabby easy chair or prefer instead to create a little luxury with leather club chairs, New Upholstery is the essential practical companion that will see you every step of the way.
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• Preface.Introduction.Human Factors: A Brief History.1. Anthropometry.
• 2. The Elderly.
• 3. Seating.
• 4. Residential Space Considerations.
• 5. Maintenance Access.
• 6. Safety at Work and at Home.
• 7. Vehicular Accommodation.
• 8. Displays.
• 9. Manual Controls.
• 10. The Environment. Appendix A: Conversion Scales.Appendix B: Abbreviations.Appendix C: Anthropometric Terms.Bibliography.Index.Illustations: Anatomical Planes and Orientations.
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Human factors research impacts everything from the height of kitchen counters to the placement of automobile pedals to a book's type size. And in this updated and expanded version of the original landmark work, you'll find the research information necessary to create designs that better accommodate human need. Featuring more than 200 anthropometric drawings, this handbook is filled with all of the essential measurements of the human body and its relationship to the designed environment. You'll also discover guidelines for designing for children and the elderly, for the digital workplace, and for ADA compliance. Measurements are in both English and metric units.
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• Foreword / Paul W. Thompson
• Skin, new design organics / Ellen Lupton
• Artificial skin / Jennifer Tobias
• Digital skins / Alicia Imperiale
• Beauty, horror + biotechnology
• Vessels + membranes
• Intelligence + touch
• Artificial light, artificial life
• Padding + protection
• Warps + folds.