1000 Chairs

Chairs, chairs, chairs (25 years TASCHEN - special edition!)

In the dictonary, named seating furniture with backrests, the chair quickened the designer like no other furnitures. Every special curve in the backrest, a certain rotation of the legs or the shape of the seat shell - every detail eflects the time of its development.

From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto over Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel, from Jugendstil up to Pop-Art and Postmodernism: The phenomenon chairs earns a soar dictonary. TASCHEN combines all of them - Thonets Bugholzmöbel, Marcel Breuers Wassily-chair and Ron Arads guard armchairs.

All texts in this book appear in German, English and French language.

This edition is a little bit shortened version of the classic 1000 Chairs, every page is attended to a chair design. Biographic texts and historic backgrounds about chairs and their maker complete this must for Design-Fans and collectors.

The editors:
Charlotte J. Fiell studied at the British Institute in Florence and at the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts in London, where she received her bachelor of Arts. After that she finished her schooling at Sotheby's in London. Peter M. Fiell has already been schooled at the Sotheby's. And he received the Master of Arts for Design at the Central Saint Martin's College for Art & Design in London. They both work as design advisors in London and composed many articles and books about the theme design. At TASCHEN Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris, Design of the 20. century and Industry design A-Z were released. Moreover the editors of the six-volumed series Decorative Art, which was also released at TASCHEN.