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The atlas Of Furniture Design
[Hardback - 2019]
mateo kries
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Category: Crafts
Sub-category: Furniture
Additional Category: Product Design
Publisher: Vitra Design Museum | ISBN: 9783931936990 | Pages: 1028
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In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design. Featuring over 1700 objects by more than 500 designers and 121 manufacturers, it includes approximately 2800 images ranging from detailed object photographs to historical images documenting interiors, patents, brochures, and related works of art and architecture.

The basis for the Atlas of Furniture Design is the collection held by the Vitra Design Museum, one of the largest of its kind with more than 7000 works. The book presents selected pieces by the most important designers of the last 230 years and documents key periods in design history, including early nineteenth-century industrial furniture in bentwood and metal, Art Nouveau and Secessionist pieces and works by protagonists of classical modernism and postwar design, as well as postmodern and contemporary pieces. The Atlas of Furniture Design employed a team of more than 70 experts and features over 550 detailed texts about key objects. In-depth essays provide sociocultural and design-historical context to four historical epochs of furniture design and the pieces highlighted here, enriched by a detailed annex containing designer biographies, glossaries, and elaborate information graphics.

The Atlas of Furniture Design is an indispensable resource for collectors, scholars and experts, as well as a beautifully designed object that speaks to design enthusiasts.

About the Author

Mateo Kries joined the Vitra Design Museum in 1995, first as a curator then as the director of the museum’s branch in Berlin. In 2001, he co-founded the DESIGNMAI festival in Berlin, in 2006 he became the chief curator at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, and since 2011 he is the museum’s director. During his tenure at the Vitra Design Museum, Kries has been responsible for numerous highly acclaimed projects, including exhibitions about the Bauhaus, African design and personalities such as Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto and many more. In 2010, Kries published the book Total Design, a critical analysis of the omnipresence of design as a contemporary practice. In 2019, he co-produced Atlas of Furniture Design, the most comprehensive book on furniture design ever published. Kries holds a DPhil in Art History from Berlin’s Humboldt University. With more than twenty-five years of experience, Mateo Kries is considered one of the most influential curators and publishers in the contemporary design scene.

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