BENT WOOD AND METAL FURNITURE: 1850-1946
Derek E. Ostergard (editor)
Derek E. Ostergard (editor): BENT WOOD AND METAL FURNITURE: 1850-1946. NYC: American Federation of the Arts, 1987. First edition. A near-fine softcover book with printed stiff wrappers and minor shelf wear including some spotting to the text block. Laid in Exhibition brochure from the IBM Gallery of Science and Art venue. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 11 x 9.5 softcover book with 368 pages and approx. 500 b/w illustrations. Published in conjunction with The American Federation of the Arts Traveling exhibition: IBM Gallery of Science and Art, NYC; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Flint Institute of Art, Flint; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland.
Contents
- Foreword by Wilder Green
- Introduction by Derek E. Ostergard
- Before Industrialization: Bent wood and bent metal in the hands of the craftsman by Derek E. Ostergard
- Michael Thonet and the development of bent-wood furniture: From workshop to factory production by Alessandro Alvera
- The development of the bent-wood furniture industry, 1869-1914 by Graham Dry
- Bent wood production and the Viennese avant-garde: Thonet Brothers and J. and J. Kohn, 1899-1914 by Christian Witt-Dorring
- Furnishing the future: Bent wood and metal furniture, 1925-1946 by Christopher Wilk
- The social and cultural context of bent wood and metal furniture by Robert Keil
- Catalogue by Derek E. Ostergard
- Appendix: Bent-wood furniture manufacturers, 1849-1914 by Graham Dry
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photo Credits
Artists, architects, and designers include Samuel Gragg, Joshua Holden, Michael Thonet, John Claudius Loudon, John Henry Belter, Gebruder Thonet, Gustav Siegel, Josef Hoffmann, Richard Riemerschmid, Emanuel von Seidl, Hans Gunther Reinstein, Rudolf and Fia Wille, Ludwif Paffendorf, Bruno Paul, Peter Behrens, Carl Bamberger, Adolf Loos, Robert Oerley, Otto Wagner, Marcel Kammerer, Koloman Moser, Leopold Bauer, Josef Urban, Otto Prutscher, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Marcel Breuer, Gerrit Rietveld, Walter Gropius, Mart Stam, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans and Wassili Luckhardt, Erich Dieckmann, Vladimir Tatlin, Eileen Gray, Pierre Chareau, Hans Coray, Heinz and Bodo Rasch, Josef Albers, Alvar Aalto, Serge Chermayeff, Osbert Lancaster, Gerald Summers, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, and Charles and Ray Eames among others.
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