Architecture & design : a third level arts course : wood or metal? English furniture of the thirties / presented by Tim Benton.

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Main entry:

Benton, Tim, 1945- instructor, screenwriter, speaker.

Title & Author:

Architecture & design : a third level arts course : wood or metal? English furniture of the thirties / presented by Tim Benton.

Publication:

[Milton Keynes] : Open University ; [London] : BBC TV, [1976]

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (24 min., 24 sec.)) : sound, color

Notes:
Originally aired on BBC2 as an episode of Architecture & design, in August 9, 1976.
Lecture.
Produced by BBC/Open University; production, Bennett Maxwell; written by Tim Benton.
Speaker: Tim Benton.
In English.

Summary:

Television broadcast 17 analyses the structures and the processes of production in wood and steel furniture around 1930-34, concentrating on the work of Heal and Son and Pel Limited. It investigates the introduction of tubular steel furniture to Britain from Germany and France, and questions Charlotte Perriand's defense of tubular steel as a material of mass production and superior technological properties, as published in The Studio in 1929.

Subject:

Heal & Son.
Pel Ltd.
Furniture England History.
Tubular steel furniture England History.
Meubles Angleterre Histoire.
Furniture
Tubular steel furniture
England

Form/genre:

Lectures.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Streaming video.
History

Added entries:

Maxwell, Bennett television producer.
Open University, producer.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, producer, broadcaster.
Centre canadien d'architecture, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture. CCAchannel.

Architecture and design : a third level arts course : wood or metal? English furniture of the thirties
Wood or metal? English furniture of the thirties
A305/17 : wood or metal? English furniture in the thirties

Holdings:

Location: Library internet resource 304298
Call No.: 304298
Status: Available

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