Books, Design and Culture
I love these Matt Blease illustrations celebrating iconic furniture designs for The Conran Shop in London. I think my favourite is probably the Noguchi coffee table illustration, but that might just be because I’ve always wanted one and there’s a book in it! (Although I wouldn’t mind an Eames lounge chair either! That illustration also features a book funnily enough!).
In this beautiful short film directed by Gary Nadeau for Dwell magazine, Danish American furniture designer Jens Risom talks about the prefab vacation home he built for his family on Block Island in the 1965:
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The Guardian architecture and design critic Jonathan Glancey talks to 80-year-old design doyen and entrepreneur Terence Conran about his work and a new exhibition at the Design Museum celebrating his contribution to British design:
Interestingly, Habitat, the store Conran opened in 1964, was inspired by the books of Elizabeth David. Growing up in England, both David’s cookbooks and Habitat furniture were a constant presence in our house.
(via Coudal)
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A Taxonomy of Office Chairs by Jonathan Olivares and published by Phaidon is a visual overview of the evolution of the modern office chair and detailing the most innovative chairs designed and built from the 1840s to the present.
In this video, Olivares talks about the book and the importance of the office chair in design history:
(via Daily Icon)
Comments closedMark Adams, Managing Director of Vitsœ, discusses Dieter Ram’s 10 principles of good design and the elegant 606 Universal Shelving System with Cool Hunting:
And for those of you who just need to see a little more of the 606 Universal Shelving System (and who doesn’t?) here is a short film of it in action:
(via The Fox is Black)
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Marilyn Neuhart, author of The Story of Eames Furniture, and her husband John both worked in close proximity to Charles and Ray Eames and key members of the Eames Office for almost 30 years. In this fascinating video interview with GestaltenTV, the couple talk about the people behind the iconic Eames designs:
The Story of Eames Furniture is published by Gestalten.
