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Overview

This beautifully curated book explores the artistry, innovation and cultural significance of 50 chair designs.

Celebrating 50 innovative and significant chair designs, each entry highlights how a commonplace item is a reflection of creativity, craftsmanship and the human experience. This is not just a book for design enthusiasts -- it is for anyone who appreciates the quiet elegance of well-made objects that merge form and function.

Organized chronologically, there are a host of iconic pieces, from Marcel Breuer's classic B3 and Jean Prouv 's Standard Chair No.4 with its industrial clarity, to Jasper Morrison's playfully minimalist Air-Chair, alongside vernacular creations that reveal how cultural needs shape utility and beauty. Each piece is treated as a story about form, function, material and the people who imagined them.

The book finds wonder in the ordinary - celebrating chairs as objects we use every day, often without noticing the design thought behind them.

Beauty of Everyday Objects

This small-format, accessible design series celebrates humble, ordinary objects that we interact with every day - the functional and beautiful things that spark joy. Each book features 50 design products that have altered the way we live, work and think.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781914902307
  • ISBN-10: 1914902300
  • Publisher: Gemini Gift Books Limited
  • Publish Date: April 2027
  • Page Count: 128

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