Author: Noritsugu Oda
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: chairs, danish
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0811822575
ISBN-13: 9780811822572
Danish furniture design burst onto the international scene in the late ’20s and soon came to be revered as classic. Danish Chairs is the only book available to survey the innovative, prolific output of Denmark’s design elite during the years when they turned again and again to the chair. Architects and designers are notorious chair aficionados; some would say they are obsessed with chairs. With over 150 examples of fine Danish chair design by 66 premier designers, Danish Chairs is the perfect book for devotees. Each style is shown from multiple angles, accompanied by technical deta
Author: Florence de Dampierre
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Keywords: history, chairs
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0810954842
ISBN-13: 9780810954847
Henry David Thoreau wrote, “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” In Chairs: A History, furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a wonderfully readable and visually stunning exploration of chairs and their place in culture through the ages. Along with hundreds of gorgeous photographs—many taken specifically for this book—de Dampierre fills these pages with fascinating information and anecdotes, tracing the chair’s emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from classical Greece, the Roman Empire, a
Author: Wallace Nutting
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: chairs, windsor
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-07-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0486417255
ISBN-13: 9780486417257
Profusely illustrated book—the first guide to understanding and interpreting the uniquely American Windsor—identifies over 100 different types of Windsor chairs and other furniture. Full-page photos of side chairs, armchairs, comb-backs, writing-arm chairs, babies’ high-backs and low chairs, settees, love seats, stools, and tables. Accompanying text describes furniture’s condition and merit, its rarity, date of manufacture, and ownership. An excellent reference for collectors, dealers, artists, students and designers. A delightful book for browsers.
Author: Joan Clark
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Keywords: chairs, audience
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0676976565
ISBN-13: 9780676976564
Like beauty, madness altered perception, but instead of offering illusion, it offered delusion. Moranna leaned the tricks madness played on perception the hard way as experience showed her how persuasively madness distorted reality. Experience also showed her that if she hung on long enough, the panic would subside and the delusions would pass. There were many dawns on the ferry when the sight of the ugly smoke stacks reassured her. They were proof that once again she had won the showdown with the voice and had delivered herself to the dawn, wholly alive. (p. 286)Joan Clark’s An Audience of
Author: Charlotte Fiell
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: taschen, chairs
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 382284103X
ISBN-13: 9783822841037
The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN’s 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as
Author: Amanda Carson Banks
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: medicine, midwives, chairs, birth
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 1999-11-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1578061725
ISBN-13: 9781578061723
There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives. Then societal changes in attitudes toward women and the practice of medicine made birthing a province of the male-dominated medical profession. In Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine, Amanda Carson Banks examines the history of the birth chair and tells how this birthing device changed over time. Through photographs, artists’ renditions of births, interviews, and texts from midwives and early ob
Author: Deborah Uchill Miller
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
Keywords: passover, tale, chairs, nine
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1982-10
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 093049413X
ISBN-13: 9780930494131
A seder for 19 with seating for 9 Will some have to stand while the others recline? A rhyming tale for young and old presents a new solution to an old dilemma -- the overcrowded seder. A Passover classic.
