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.
Presented in the context of the exhibition The University is now on air : broadcasting modern architecture, held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, November 15, 2017-April 1, 2018.

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

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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