Modern Furniture Classics: Postwar To Post-Modernism

Modern Furniture Classics: Postwar To Post-ModernismContaining some of the most spectacular colour photographs of furniture ever published, this stunning book presents a complete visual history of furniture design since the end of the Second World War. It begins in 1945 with such achievements as the highly sculptural plywood chairs of Charles and Ray Eames, who were among the first to use organic shapes derived from the natural world. Revolutionary 1950s designs, including Harry Bertoia's wire Diamond

Helen Simonson

Pete's interest in the story develops into an obsession with Ruth

His pupil seeks knowledge

Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy

'I will keep my book in this nook so everyone can read it

they are cutting rail and road links serving the frontline German armies

Before next summer

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her feckless chess hustler cousin

With humility

enduring the emotional turmoil of a second failed marriage

a masterpiece' Alberto Manguel It begins with a body