Title & Author:

Handle with care : unpacking a bulky table / edited by Lisa Andreani, Hanan Kataw and Simon Mitchell.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, 2019.
Leipzig : Pöge Druck

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 15 cm

Series:

Bauhaus taschenbuch ; 24

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the symposium Conversations around the table: stories about an enlivened modern object held at the Bauhaus Dessau, September 5, 2019 and the exhibition Handle with care: unpacking a bulky table held at the Bauhaus Dessau, September 6, 2019-January 12, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references.
Chapter 1. Searching for "the" table. Becoming a collection piece / Hanan Kataw -- Which table are we talking about? Tracing the migration of stories through a multitude of copies / Simon Mitchell -- Chapter 2. Actors and networks. Mapping the crisscross: the power of outsider networks / Mara Trubenbach ; "Nothing need be ugly": the weight of the continent on modern British furniture design / Simon Mitchell ; From Estonia to England: how expertise travels among the transport of tables / Simon Mitchell and Gabriela Szalanska ; Visual culture. Reflecting a modern life: Isokon's furniture advertising in the 1930s / Roxanna Brands ; Anything modern: photographic cultures and visual narratives of the 1930s / Marianna Czwojdrak ; The house of the future / Lisa Andreani and Louise Rietvink -- Exhibiting the Bauhaus. How can you make Bauhaus so Taschen? Breaking down the exhibition canon during the centenary / Lisa Andreani ; Connecting the dots: how to design through deconstruction / Marianna Czwojdrak -- Exhibition -- Appendix. Symposium ; Author's biographies ; Imprint ; Sources ; Credits ; Bauhaus paperbacks.

Summary:

What happens to an everyday object when it becomes part of a museum collection? The table designed by the Bauhaus designer and émigré Marcel Breuer for the Isokon Furniture Company in London in 1936, which is today part of the Bauhaus collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is used as a case study on the postgraduate research and curatorial programme. While the history of art and design generally focuses on the stylistic classification of objects, the Bauhaus Lab participants suggest an alternative approach: they investigate the material stories, social practices, and different phases of commodification and ownership that the objects pass through on their way from personal possessions to items in a museum collection. The Lab critically analyses the various modes of social existence embodied in the objects. Exhibition: Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany (06.09.2019-12.01.2020).

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9783959053556 (paperback)
395905355X (paperback)

Subject:

Furniture Congresses.
Museum objects Social aspects Congresses.
Design Museums Congresses.
Meubles Congrès.
Objets exposés Aspect social Congrès.
Design Musées Congrès.
Design Museums
Furniture

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Andreani, Lisa, editor, contributor
Kataw, Hanan, editor, contributor
Mitchell, Simon, editor, contributor
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, organizer, host institution.
Bauhaus Taschenbuch ; 24.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 307894
Call No.: BIB 253358
Status: Available