
Furnitecture
Furniture That Transforms Space
Anna Yudina(Author)
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 15. February 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-500-29756-8 (ISBN)
Description
A compact sourcebook of ideas for innovative furnishing, interior environments and small-scale architectural interventions.
As the definition of 'designer' expands and architects today create everything from jewelry to urban masterplans, a new wave of objects is transforming our interior spaces. They include bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, home-office spaces-within-spaces, and self-contained kitchen cubes that can be expanded to reveal every conceivable cooking and eating function.
Furnitecture presents some 200 examples of this new design typology. From Danish studio KiBiSi's design for a reconfigurable bookshelf system and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's moving boxes within rooms, to Dutch designers Makkink & Bey's conversational Ear Chairs and the French atelier 37.2's series of self-standing cubes, there is an interior world of innovation in these pages. And a personal space just for you.
As the definition of 'designer' expands and architects today create everything from jewelry to urban masterplans, a new wave of objects is transforming our interior spaces. They include bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, home-office spaces-within-spaces, and self-contained kitchen cubes that can be expanded to reveal every conceivable cooking and eating function.
Furnitecture presents some 200 examples of this new design typology. From Danish studio KiBiSi's design for a reconfigurable bookshelf system and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's moving boxes within rooms, to Dutch designers Makkink & Bey's conversational Ear Chairs and the French atelier 37.2's series of self-standing cubes, there is an interior world of innovation in these pages. And a personal space just for you.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrated in colour throughout
Dimensions
Height: 182 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-29756-8 (9780500297568)
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Book
02/2015
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€41.03
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Person
Anna Yudina is co-founder and editor-in-chief of MONITOR magazine. She has curated design exhibitions on Zaha Hadid and Jakob + MacFarlane and has written several books on architecture, including Lumitecture for Thames & Hudson.
Content
Introduction
1. Experimenting with Structure. Sections: Frameworks, Deconstruction, Blocks & Modules, Stacks & Towers, Transformers, Parametrics
2. Furnitecture as Micro-architecture. Sections: Fusion, Space Organizers, Room in a Room, In-built; Landscapes
3. Synthesis. Sections: Macro-furniture, Architectural Shelving, Partitions, Plug-ins and Add-ons, Building Blocks, Multi-scale
1. Experimenting with Structure. Sections: Frameworks, Deconstruction, Blocks & Modules, Stacks & Towers, Transformers, Parametrics
2. Furnitecture as Micro-architecture. Sections: Fusion, Space Organizers, Room in a Room, In-built; Landscapes
3. Synthesis. Sections: Macro-furniture, Architectural Shelving, Partitions, Plug-ins and Add-ons, Building Blocks, Multi-scale