Just Chairs: Over 600 Designs from Around the World
Organized by period, designer and materials, respectively, thissmartly laid-out, flexibound book delivers what it promises: 6,000chairs in hundreds of color illustrations. Thonet, Wright andMackintosh; van der Rohe, Breuer and Le Corbusier; Aalto, Eames andSaarinen; Starck, Wanders and Gehry—all the big names arehere. Most of the pages feature five or six chairs shot at differentangles and dropped onto white-space pages, with tiny, caption-likeparagraphs giving their names, dates and dimensions. Purists will wishthat the reproductions were sharper and the organization moreinsightful, and some of the more recent designers may be unfamiliareven to chair enthusiasts. But those interested in surveying the fieldwill appreciate the variety of the designs pictured here, and thebook’s sleek, glossy, diverting layout may attract casual readers.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.