Description
Revealing pairings of a chair and a building by every architect―featuring fifty-five stars from Calatrava to Hadid
Does an architect’s style all the time come across, without reference to medium? Pairing great buildings with great chairs by the same architect, Chairs by Architects demonstrates how the defining qualities of a building’s style can be evident in that architect’s furniture designs. Pieces of furniture, like manifestos, turn into signatures of architectural style. The fifty-five architects featured here include early up to date architectural pioneers such as Otto Wagner, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Antoni Gaudí, and Walter Gropius, at the side of more latest up to date masters such as Oscar Niemeyer, Santiago Calatrava, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and Daniel Libeskind.
The book comprises interviews on Designing (in conversation with David Adjaye), Manufacturing (with David E. Bright, Knoll, Inc.), Selling (with Zeev Aram), Collecting (with Richard Wright), and Preserving (with Susanne Graner, Vitra Design Museum). This is very important reading for everyone concerned with design, architecture, and the relationship between creators and their creations.
125+ illustrations in color