MIES VAN DER ROHNE Furniture and Interiors 1st U.S. Edition 1982 Werner Blaser

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MIES VAN DER ROHNE Furniture and Interiors 1st U.S. Edition 1982 Werner Blaser:
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MIES VAN DER ROHE: FURNITURE AND INTERIORS by Werner Blaser

This Out-of-PrintHardcover 1982 First American edition with Dust Jacket is in very good condition. The dust jacket does show some light rubbing, scuffing and fading. The binding is tight, the corners are sharp, and the pages are clean and crisp.

141 pages with 220 black and white photos and drawings

From the inside flap: “He was the father of the now ubiquitous glass skyscraper, director of the seminal Bauhaus School, evangelist of the International Style in architecture—in short Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was probably the single most influential architect of this century. Mies, who observed that only a living interior has a living exterior, believed furniture to be the first element in the architect’s organization of space. Correspondingly, this new volume in Barron’s Furniture and Design series focuses on Mies as a shaper of interior space, a classicist who could integrate furniture and architecture to produce a harmonious whole.”

Contents

Preface
Principles of Design
Mies van der Rohe, 1886-1969
The Significance of His Work
Changing Form Through Technology
Background for an Understanding of Mies’s Design: includes the sections “The Beginnings of Modernism”; “The Pioneers of Modern Design”; “The Avant-Garde,” and “Design and the Werkbund.”
The Design of Mies van der Rohe, Furniture and Interiors: includes the sections: “Early Furniture in Wood and Steel,“ “Evolution of Skeleton Forms, 1925-1935,” “Early Tubular-Steel Furniture,” “The Weissenhof Development (Werkbund Exposition) in Stuttgart, 1927,” and “Form and Architecture, 1927.”
Furniture Designs for Specific Buildings
Spatial Studies/Interiors
Realizations in Chicago: includes the sections “Museum for a Small City, 1942” and “Mies on Technology and Architecture.”
Evolution of Form: includes the sections “Chair Forms Before and After 1940,” “Sketches for Bentwood Armchairs, 1933-35,” and “Shell-Shaped Creations, 1940-46.”
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) can be considered the father of the modern city, with its towers of glass and steel his ever growing progeny and legacy. Equally significant, if smaller in scale, is Mies’ daring design of furniture, pieces that exhibit an unerring sense of proportion, as well as minimalist forms and exquisitely refined details. In fact, his chairs have been called architecture in miniature – exercises in structure and materials that achieve an extraordinary visual harmony as autonomous pieces and in relation to the interiors for which they were designed.