This beautiful survey seeks to build a vocabulary of modern studio furniture’s meanings and ideals that is similar to the lexicon of traditional furniture that has existed for centuries. Striking photographs and incisive essays analyze contemporary pieces and provide a forum for debate on content and meaning in furniture that bridges the gaps between scholars, design professionals, furniture makers, and consumers. A 44-page gallery juried by Furniture Society members highlights today’s very best contemporary furniture works.

Tradition in Contemporary Furniture (Furniture Studio series)

Arts & Photography

Kelsey, John

Mastelli, Rick

Decorative Arts & Design

The Furniture Society

Reporting on the myriad ways that contemporary furniture artists are exploring cutting-edge digital technology, this study investigates the modern collaborative process between furniture makers and their clients. Insightful interviews with 100 of the field's leading artists are presented, along with information on the changing approaches today's craftsmen take when designing and making fine furniture. This report also focuses on how modern furniture artists balance the investigation of new technologies and art movements while remaining true to their traditions.

Furniture Makers Exploring Digital Technologies (Furniture Studio series)

History

Through beautiful photographs and intelligent writing, this fourth volume in the Furniture Studio series reports on the myriad ways that contemporary studio-furniture artists are responding to materials challenges such as the scarcity of exotic timber due to rain forest depletion, the subsequent explorations of the uses of metal, plastic, glass, and stone, and the increase in new functions realized by digital processes. Aiming to bridge the gaps between individual furniture makers, designers, scholars, and consumers, this forum for the discussion of meaning and content through a variety of formats includes an award-winning photographic portfolio by Judy Kenslie McKie, an essay showing how contemporary sculptors use furniture as metaphor, a photo essay on drawing, and a memoir by a leading artist that explains how she broke into new design realms by altering the established rules. Additional exhibition reviews include the furniture art of Roy McMakin, a juried portfolio of student work, and a look at the cutting-edge San Diego school led by Wendy Maruyama.

Focus on Materials: Furniture Studio 4 (Furniture Studio series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Addressing the trend toward minimalism and the fierce debates about the traditional role of craft in art, interior decoration, and architecture, this collection explores the controversy surrounding the intellectualization of the craft debate. Revealing how the upcoming generation of studio furniture makers views the history of the craft—and their place in it—the guide also examines methods used by painters and sculptors to apply craft values, Chinese antiques as inspiration, and new styles in the form and function of drawers.

Furniture Studio: The Meaning of Craft (Furniture Studio series)

Architecture

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Books by The Furniture Society

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Tradition in Contemporary Furniture (Furniture Studio series)

Furniture Makers Exploring Digital Technologies (Furniture Studio series)

Focus on Materials: Furniture Studio 4 (Furniture Studio series)

Furniture Studio: The Meaning of Craft (Furniture Studio series)