Danish Chairs
Character, San Francisco, California, 1999
Description
With over 150 examples of Danish chair design by 66 premier designers, Danish Chairs surveys the innovative and prolific output of Denmark’s design elite. Intended for designers and furniture enthusiasts, the book showcases the beauty of the Danish chair's functional design and strong yet spare architecture, with its elegant, organic curves. The book's cover uses schematic line drawings and the bold palette of the Danish flag to highlight the sculptural quality of Arne Jacobsen's Laminated Chair No. 4130.
Collections:
50 Books | 50 Covers of 1999
Repository:
Denver Art Museum
Discipline:
Book design
Format:
Book cover
Credits
- Design firm
- Character
- Designer
- Patricia Evangelista
- Illustrator
- Noritsugu Oda
- Photographer
- Yoshio Hayashi
- Author
- Noritsugu Oda
- Translator
- Patricia Yamada
- Editor
- Lesley E. Bruynesteyn
- Production coordinator
- Chris Hemesath
- Trim size
- 8 3/42 x 11 15/162 inches
- Compositor
- Patricia Evangelista
- Typefaces
- Gill Sans, Trade Gothic
- Printer
- Toppan (Japan)
- Paper
- 310 grams Bon Ivory
- Binding method
- Notch paperback
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
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