The great postwar modern furniture designs are classics, because they are still great. Herman Miller, the company that led the office revolution, is a name synonymous with the best modern residential as well as contract furniture. Classics by super-designers - Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, and Isamu Noguchi - can still be purchased from the Herman Miller for the Home collection. Their designs, plus the work of more than a dozen other important Herman Miller designers, are described here in detail and shown in color and black and white photographs, plus original drawings by Nelson and the famous Frykholm picnic posters, all from the Herman Miller archives. This book is essential for collectors, dealers, curators, designers, and other devotees of modernism.
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Leslie Pia, Ph.D., is the author of Fifties Furniture, Fifties Glass, and many other Schiffer books on decorative arts and design, and arranged for the reprinting of the Herman Miller 1955/1956 catalog.
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An Outdated 1990s Perspective,
By StorageDC (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This book is focused, to its detriment, on two mid-century designers whose products Herman Miller reintroduced in 1994. So if you're interested in designs by the Eamses or George Nelson, you're in luck. There are about 90 pictures of furniture by the Eamses, many in full color, in addition to brief bios and some production details. Nelson gets 70 pictures and illustrations, plus a brief bio. Noguchi, also a member of the 1994 revival, oddly gets a mere four pages.
Now if, like me, you expect early Herman Miller designers such as Gilbert Rohde to be featured in a book called "Classic Herman Miller", you will be sorely disappointed (only seven pages for Gilbert). If you think "classic" equals "iconic", you'll be in for a bigger shock---Poul Kjaerholm gets three short paragraphs, and Vernor Panton gets one. One paragraph! If for some reason you equate classic design with 1980s-1990s modular office furniture, you'll be a bit happier. Geoff Hollington and Bruce Burdick each get about the same space as poor Gilbert. Save your money. This book has been surpassed by online resources available for free.
6 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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A GREAT BOOK!!!,
By Largoj@aol.com (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Classic Herman Miller (Schiffer Design Book) (Hardcover)
WHAT A WONDERFUL NEW PUBLICATION. LOTS OF GREAT INFORMATION & PHOTOS. WE NEED MORE FINE BOOKS LIKE THIS!
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