Title & Author:

Formlose Möbel / herausgegeben von Peter Noever ; Konzept und Text von Sebastian Hackenschmidt und Dietmar Rübel = Formless furniture / edited by Peter Noever ; concept and text by Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Dietmar Rübel.

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, c2008.

Description:

133 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

MAK Studies ; 13

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the MAK, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, May 28-October 26, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references.
Formations of the formless ; The end of truth to materials ; Against good form -- More flexibility : soft design ; Theory and plastic of protest ; Victory of the trimmings over the wood ; Polymorphous upholstery -- The uniqueness of the formless ; Informe -- let the universe be formless ; The rags of consumer society -- Anti-forms between art and design ; Chance and chaos ; When formlessness becomes attitude -- Liquid structures : blobjects ; Between soft and hardware ; SPAM for the next society.
German and English.

Summary:

"In the mid-sixites, countless artists discovered the formless as a starting point for their experiments with materials. The maxim "form follows material," however, was not only proclaimed in the area of Object art, it had a distinct impact on furniture design as well. ... this extensive exploration ... is the first of its kind to concentrate on the various aspects and features of the formless in furniture design, elaborately illuminating the interaction between the avant-garde and the applied arts as well as the shifting concepts of formlessness. In addition, the examination of current design approaches, as computer-assisted "blobjects", for instance, shows that to this day, designers playfully oppose so-called good form and recognize the formless as the opportunity for remodelling aesthetics."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783775722476 (paperback)
3775722475 (paperback)

Subject:

Furniture design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Furniture Exhibitions.
Meubles Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Meubles Expositions.
Furniture design History 20th century.
Form (Aesthetics)
Furniture
Furniture design

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Noever, Peter, 1941- editor.
Hackenschmidt, Sebastian, author.
Rübel, Dietmar, author.
Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, host institution.
MAK Studies ; 13.

Formless furniture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264823
Call No.: BIB 196274
Status: Available