The curule-base chair descended from the Egyptian X-frame folding stool which had been adopted and refined by Egyptians based on earlier examples from the ancient Near East. … A Time and Place for the Curule
Tag: Furniture
Brazilianness
What makes Brazilian mid-century furniture design so Brazilian? Material, maker, and means of production. … Brazilianness
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Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, 1779
detail, Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, 1779
Team Disney, Michael Graves, 1990
stool, C.H. Tatham, ca. 1800
Capitello, Attica, and Attica TL, Gufram, 1972
sidechair, Josef Ulrich Danhauser, 1825
sidechair, Robert Venturi for Knoll, 1984
Mezzadro, Castiglioni, 1957
Bag Radio, Daniel Weil, 1983
armchair, Carlo Bugatti, 1902
Barbare Chair, Elisabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti, 1981
In design, postmodernists reject modernism and its prescriptive design solutions. Modernists believed in progress, truth, technology, functionalism, and universality. … Pre – Pomo Pomo
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