By Barbara Glasner, Stephen Ott
ISBN-10: 3034610890
ISBN-13: 9783034610896
Wooden has the ability to fascinate and encourage. From time immemorial, this flexible and renewable uncooked fabric has been utilized by designers from each self-discipline. at the present time, new completing applied sciences are broadening the variety of its makes use of and making stunning strategies attainable. ask yourself wooden provides this undying fabric because it is getting used this day, and records a range of a few 100 present foreign initiatives by means of celebrated designers, architects, and artists whose cre-ative and leading edge method of the fabric makes their paintings compelling. For chosen initiatives, interviews with the designers offer an in-depth examine the artistic method and its effects. A moment part shines a focus on chosen woods, wood-based fabrics, wooden composites, and completing applied sciences and offers venture examples that use them. An alphabetical index presents heritage details at the designers represented within the publication.
One hundred cutting edge wooden development initiatives by way of Konstantin Grcic, Stefan Diez, Martino Gamper, Tord Boontje, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Hella Jongerius, SANAA, Maarten Baas, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Pierre Charpin, Matali Crasset, Peter Marigold, Jürgen Mayer H., Jasper Morrison, Stephan Balkenhol, Rolf Sachs, Studio task, Patricia Urquiola, Ai Weiwei, Richard Woods, Sebastian fallacious, and others.