Limited Edition: Prototypes One-Offs & Design Art Furniture

Lovett Sophie

ISBN 10: 3764388951 / ISBN 13: 9783764388959

Editore: Birkhauser Basel 2009, 2009

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26.5 x 20.0cms 256pp colour illusts very good+ hardback with decorative boards (no dustwrapper as issued) The sections are: protypes; one-offs; edition X; the new patrons; auctions & attitudes; contributors.

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• Titolo: Limited Edition: Prototypes One-Offs & Design Art Furniture
• Editore: Birkhauser Basel 2009
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3764388951
• ISBN 13: 9783764388959
• Rilegatura: Rilegato

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Limited Edition is the new buzzword in furniture design. The demand for unique pieces is steadily increasing. With prototypes, one-offs and limited product lines, designers are celebrating a cult of individuality for all price classes. Furniture prototypes have always been an element of the industrial design process, but now they are being brought from the workshops and presented to the public as embodiments of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age. In the global village with its standardized commodities, exclusive one-offs with an artisanal flavor are turning into coveted objects. Limited furniture series satisfy the collector’s thirst for objects that dissolve the boundary between art and design.
Limited Edition pursues this new phenomenon and uncovers its background in meticulous investigative essays based on the author’s ongoing interchange with key designers, gallery owners, auctioneers and manufacturers. With a rich selection of magnificent images and an attractive layout, it presents the best and most breathtaking pieces by the leading designers.

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Through design prototypes, limited editions and design-as-art objects, Limited Edition documents a new phenomenon in contemporary furniture design. This comprehensive and inspiring volume is illustrated with a rich selection of works that reflect the very best of this new area. As well as new and behind-the-scenes images from some of its leading protagonists, including Gaetano Pesce, Marc Newson, Maarten Baas, Tom Dixon, Studio Job, Zaha Hadid and Johanna Grawunder, Limited Edition contains an equally fascinating collection of works by newcomers and comparative unknowns. From over 40 interviews with key designers, manufacturers, gallerists, auctioneers and critics, the author Sophie Lovell has catalogued and compiled a unique and timely overview of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age.