
Silla Mexicana
Arquine (Publisher)
Published on 20. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-607-9489-25-0 (ISBN)
Description
The chair has always been more than a utilitarian item in Mexican culture. The chair's utility, its fundamental importance in everyday life, has made it a productive site for experimentation, producing some of the most iconic examples of Mexican design. In this volume, design curator Anna Elena Mallet explores the chair in Mexican cultural and design history. Organized chronologically as an illustrated timeline, Silla Mexicana presents a lively history of the chair from folk art to colonial-period manufacturing, culminating in the creations of contemporary architects and designers-the chair as a collectors' item as well as a functional object.
Designers surveyed in this volume include Gaston Chaussat, William Spratling, Michael van Beuren, Eleuterio Cortes and Luis Barragan, Ezekiel Farca, Jorge Moreno, Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta, Anne Monique Renee Midy, Victor Klassen, Lucio Muniain and Carlos Mapelli, Alejandra and Cecelia Prieto, Louis Poire and many more.
Designers surveyed in this volume include Gaston Chaussat, William Spratling, Michael van Beuren, Eleuterio Cortes and Luis Barragan, Ezekiel Farca, Jorge Moreno, Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta, Anne Monique Renee Midy, Victor Klassen, Lucio Muniain and Carlos Mapelli, Alejandra and Cecelia Prieto, Louis Poire and many more.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ciudad de Mexico, D.F.
Mexico
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 180 mm
ISBN-13
978-607-9489-25-0 (9786079489250)
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