American Furniture Designers - Oscar P. Fitzgerald

American Furniture Designers

1900-2020
Buch | Hardcover
294 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-3562-4 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
The book will serve as the essential reference for collectors of Mid Century modern furniture, curators of museum collections and house museums with 20th century furniture, and for the hundreds of dealers, gallery owners, auctioneers, and appraisers who specialize in 20th and 21st century design.
The 20th century furniture is hot. American Furniture Designers: 1900 to the Present highlights the furniture produced by the 20 most important American furniture designers of the 20th and early 21st centuries plus a selection of the best-known European designers whose work is sold by Knoll International and Herman Miller. The designers are organized into five chapters. Introductions to each section summarize the evolution of furniture design as it evolved through the 20th and early 21st centuries. The book begins with the Arts and Crafts era before World War I; moves into the interwar period when Modernism gained a foothold in America; continues through the Postwar heyday of Mid-century Modern; highlights the furniture from the 1970s and into the 21st century with a focus on the foremost promoters of modern furniture, Knoll International and Herman Miller; and concludes with a selection of the top Studio Furniture makers and their innovative creations.

The book focuses on the leading American designers from each of these periods including Gustav Stickley and Charles Rohlfs during the Arts and Crafts movement, Paul Frankl and Gilbert Rohde in the interwar period, Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson for Mid- century Modern, and Wendell Castle and George Nakashima for Studio Furniture to name just a few. All their furniture is explained and profusely illustrated with 280 color photos.

For anyone curious about the modern material culture that surrounds them, the book will explain everything about American furniture from 1900 into the 21st century: when it was made, where it was made, who made it, what it was made of, how it was designed, how long it was in production, and how the furniture related to its contemporaries.

Oscar P. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. is a nationally known historian, author, lecturer, and consultant on American furniture from colonial times to the present. As a member of the faculty of the Smithsonian Institution/George Washington University Decorative Arts and Design History Masters Program, he teaches all the furniture classes He has shared his passion for furniture with audiences nationwide, including a number of certification seminars for appraisers. Recently, he presented a program on identifying Mid-century Modern furniture fakes at the annual conference of the International Society of Appraisers. His latest publication is the definitive American Furniture: 1650 to the Present.

Foreword by Christopher Long

Preface

Acknowledgements

I. The American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1900-1916

1. Charles Rohlfs

2. Charles and Henry Greene

3. Gustav Stickley

4. Frank Lloyd Wright

II. Modernism: A Tough Sell in America: 1920-1940

5. Paul Frankl

6. Gilbert Rohde

7. Kem Weber

8. Donald Deskey

III. Mid-Century Modern: 1940s through the 1970s

9. George Nelson

10. Charles and Ray Eames

11. Florence Knoll

12. Edward J Wormley

13. Russel Wright

14. Paul Evans

IV. Modernism, Postmodernism, and into the 21st Century: Knoll International and Herman Miller

15. Knoll Designers after Florence Knoll: 1965 to the Present

16. Herman Miller Designers post George Nelson: 1972 to the Present

V. Studio Furniture

17. George Nakashima

18. Sam Maloof

19. Wendell Castle

20. Garry Knox Bennett

21. Tommy Simpson

22. John Cederquist

Annotated Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 222 x 289 mm
Gewicht 1057 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Sachbuch/Ratgeber
ISBN-10 1-5381-3562-0 / 1538135620
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-3562-4 / 9781538135624
Zustand Neuware
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