Flying Furniture - Softcover

Smithson, Alison; Lissitzky, El; Smithson, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3883754056 ISBN 13: 9783883754055

Publisher: Walther König, Köln, 2000

Synopsis

The artist and architect Peter Smithson is one of the best-informed and insightful critics of Modernist and Postmodernist architecture. In Flying Furniture he sheds light on the construction of furniture, particularly mobile furniture, which has rendered obsolete the distinction between 'movables' and 'immovables.' The works featured here extend from Bauhaus up to the present day, representing such essential designers as Alison and Peter Smithson, Stefan Wewerka, El Lissitzky, Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld. The book itself testifies to the possibilities and dynamism of the field of design with its unique shape, its playful layout and the witty remarks and quotations throughout.

About this title

About the Author

El Lissitzky was born in 1890 and died in 1941. One of the founders of Constructivism, he created, in addition to his geometric pictorial compositions, placard designs, avant-garde architectural projects and pioneering photographic work.

Mies van der Rohe was born in 1886 in Aachen, Germany. One of the most important and influential architects of the first half of the 20th century, Mies designed, among other iconic buildings, the Seagram Building in New York and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. He died in Chicago in 1969.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walther König, Köln
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3883754056
• ISBN 13: 9783883754055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192