Bent ply : the art of plywood furniture / Dung Ngo & Eric Pfeiffer.

Main entry:

Ngo, Dung.

Title & Author:

Bent ply : the art of plywood furniture / Dung Ngo & Eric Pfeiffer.

Publication:

Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Wooden covers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Rob Forbes -- The History of Plywood Furniture -- The Making of Plywood Furniture -- A Compendium of Plywood Furniture.

Summary:

Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding. Plywood truly fulfills that most modern of dreams: bridging the gap between technology and nature. Bent Ply is the first book devoted to plywood in modern design. The book consists of two parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); the second, an annotated journal of the making of a piece of bent plywood furniture, from the forest to the showroom. Bent Ply contains numerous illustrations of the classics of bent ply design, including furniture from Alvar Aalto, Michael Thonet, and Charles and Ray Eames, and examples of its appropriation by the military: John F. Kennedys PT109 boat and the DeHavilland Mosquito were both fabricated from plywood.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568984057 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781568984056 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Furniture making.
Plywood.
Meubles Fabrication.
Contreplaqué.
furniture making.
plywood.
Angewandte Kunst
Holz
Möbel
Regal
Sperrholz
Stuhl
Tisch
Multiplex.
Meubelkunst.
Houtbewerking.
Mobiliário (fabricação)
Desenho industrial.
Design.
Tecnologia da madeira.
Furniture
Architect-designed furniture

Form/genre:

Beispielsammlung.
Plywood boards (binding components)
Distinctive covers.

Added entries:

Pfeiffer, Eric.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229195
Call No.: TS843 .N46 2003
Status: Available

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