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Terms and conditions applyFurnish - Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century
Sophie Lovell
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Format: Book
Pages: 271
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag
Date Published: Feb 2007
Stock Code: 60866
Binding: Hardback
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Furnish presents territories that expand upon our current understanding of interior design. The book documents recent work by designers, artists and architects and shows how they are using furniture in pioneering ways: as environment, as art object, as digital-organic growth, as mutation or as insertion. These cutting-edge examples are a sure indicator of the trends that will be influencing interiors as well as hotel, restaurant and club design for the next several years.
Furnish also explores the new hybrid nature of "occupied" spaces, where the domestic enters the realm of fine art and where objects from pimped heirlooms to rapid prototypes find their homes. The book also presents interdisciplinary work, for example, architects engineering tables, graphic designers creating soft furniture and industrial designers making concept art. The experimental spaces in Furnish contain innovative examples of design work that are relevant and inspiring for anyone working creatively.
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Review by Julie Bowyer, Editorial Assistant, Grand Designs Magazine & writer for Icon Magazine
This hardback tome of a design volume looks at the shift in furniture and product design that is taking place in and around the design industry. A well-written and inspiring introduction by Gaetano Pesce lays out the aims of the book. Pesce tells us the book addresses the blurring of boundaries between product design and its neighbouring fields of art and architecture. Secondly, it draws parallels between this increasingly open-minded approach to design and the emergence of individual, multi-use products that are a fusion of different disciplines. Buzzwords like ‘limited edition’, ‘customized’, and ‘one-off’ are increasingly used to sell products, and this book goes some way to describing why. After the first few pages, you are left in no doubt that the pictures are left to speak for themselves in this volume, and are more than capable, as stunning full-page photography dominates the book. The vast catalogue of projects over 270 pages is captivating, and reads as a ‘who’s who’ of design, while the analytical essays grouped in the centre of the book satisfy the need for more substantial knowledge. Products-wise, there are design favourites by old hands, as well as new offerings from fresh young designers like Jaime Hayon and The Bourollec Brothers. All illustrate that we are moving in a new design direction, away from the mass market, and towards the desire for inimitable works. This more than ticks all the boxes of a must-have design manual, and one with its finger firmly on the pulse.
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