Download e-book for iPad: Furniture Design by Jim Postell

By Jim Postell

ISBN-10: 1118090780

ISBN-13: 9781118090787

The entire advisor to furnishings layout— extended and updated

Furniture designers draw on a number of wisdom and disciplines to create their paintings. From historical past to concept to expertise, Furniture Design bargains a complete survey of the fundamental craft- and practice-related points of furnishings design.

Generously illustrated with pictures and drawings—including a brand new colour section—this Second Edition gains up to date assurance of fabric standards, eco-friendly layout, electronic layout, and fabrication applied sciences. It additionally good points twenty-five case reviews of furnishings layout that characterize a large collection of works, designers, and methods, together with contemporary designs produced in the final decade.

The e-book explores:

Furniture functionality and social use
Form, spatial association, and typological orders
Structural integrity and composition
Accessibility, common layout, human components, and ergonomics
The layout procedure, from schematics via fabrication
Materials, procedures, and techniques of fabrication
Professional perform and marketing
The historical past of furnishings layout, from prehistory to the electronic age

Complete with a word list of phrases and a finished bibliography, Furniture layout, moment Edition is a one-stop source that furnishings designers will flip to frequently for the recommendation, suggestions, and data had to practice their craft.

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