9783702503574

Book Description: Anton Pustet (1998), Salzburg - München, 1998. 1/1000. Portfolio containing a selection of study projects on chair design during the years 1973 - 1996 at the Institute für Entwerfen, Raumgestaltung und Sakralbau at the Technical University Munich. 130 four-page fold-outs resting in red cloth clamshell box with illustrated cover plate and white lettering on front. Each fold-out with drawings & designs in b/w, includes information on each design such as measurements, material used, history, etc. "During the years of my professorship (1973-1996), the subject of interior design gave me the opportunity to offer students of architecture the study project of furniture construction to their own designs, and of documenting these. Continuos work on this exercise during more than two decades produced over 400 examples, of which 130 are published in this collection.The present collection ranges from Egyptian chair to African stool, from peasant chair to simple beer-garden seat, from Windsor chair to collapsible tropical chair, from folding gaming-table to school desk, from lounger to rocking chair, from the beginnings of Thonet's experiments with laminated wood to the classical bentwood constructions, from laminated wood products to tubular steel chairs, cantilevered chairs, wire frames and plastic shells." (Friedrich Kurrent). Includes small b/w reproductions of photographs of designers such as Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Adolf Loos, Man Ray, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans Wegner, and many others. Text in German and English. Very minor soiling on clamshell box, otherwise in fine condition. First impression (1. Auflage), Limited edition. Bookseller Inventory # 29553

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