Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design
During the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design. With her ingenious system for building inexpensive but sturdy box furniture out of recycled materials, she aimed to bring good design to the urban working class. As Antoinette LaFarge shows, Brigham forged a singular career for herself that embraced working in the American and European settlement movements, publishing a book of box furniture designs, running carpentry workshops in New York, and founding a company that offered some of th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-32341-7
- EAN: 9783030323417
- Produktnummer: 32847662
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 131 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'607 KB
- Abbildungen: 31 schwarz-weiße und 4 farbige Abbildungen, 4 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Antoinette LaFarge is Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
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