Author: Sharon DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Chicago Furniture
Author: Sharon DarlingChicago furniture
Author: Sharon S. DarlingChicago Furniture, 1833-1983
Author: Sharon S. DarlingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Chicago Made
Author: Robert LewisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226477045
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the well-documented workings of centrally located city factories but also the overlooked suburbanization of manufacturing and its profound effect on the metropolitan landscape. Robert Lewis documents how manufacturers, attracted to greenfield sites on the city’s outskirts, began to build factory districts there with the help of an intricate network of railroad owners, real estate developers, financiers, and wholesalers. These immense networks of social ties, organizational memberships, and financial relationships were ultimately more consequential, Lewis demonstrates, than any individual achievement. Beyond simply giving Chicago businesses competitive advantages, they transformed the economic geography of the region. Tracing these transformations across seventy-five years, Chicago Made establishes a broad new foundation for our understanding of urban industrial America.
Early L. & J. G. Stickley Furniture
Author: L. & J. G. StickleyPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486158586
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A reprint of two rare catalogs (circa 1908–1910) of furniture makers — brothers of Gustav Stickley — who played a key role in the Arts & Crafts movement. Over 200 illustrations.
Twentieth Century Design
Author: Jonathan M. WoodhamPublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780192842046
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. The book explores the way in which 20th-century designs such as the Coca-Cola bottle have affected our culture more than those considered true classics
The Stickley Brothers
Author: Michael E. ClarkPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586850531
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Stickley is a name synonymous with style in America. The five Stickley brothers were fully engaged in the furniture industry around the turn of the century and had a huge impact on America's statement of style. Here, for the first time, the representative photos and ideas of all the brothers' work appear together in one volume, to compare and contrast, so that readers might make their own evaluations.
Frank Lloyd Wright--the Lost Years, 1910-1922
Author: Anthony AlofsinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226013664
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
New definition to the little-known work Wright produced during this period, which he describes as Wright's primitivist phase. He traces this influence in his art through Wright's explorations of primitivist sources, innovations in sculpture, and an intensification of the architect's use of ornament. Less tangible, but as important, was Wright's view of himself, his art, and society, and Alofsin uncovers the European impact on the architect's image of himself as a.
Chicago Portraits
Author: June Skinner SawyersPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810126494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten—all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules—of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Jane Addams, Al Capone, Willie Dixon, Harriet Monroe, Louis Sullivan, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington, and new additions Saul Bellow, Harry Caray, Del Close, Ann Landers, Walter Payton, Koko Taylor, and Studs Terkel—Chicago Portraits tells you why their names are inseparable from the city they called home.
A History of Seating, 3000 BC to 2000 AD
Author: Jenny PyntPublisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604977183
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The focus of this book is on functional seating, and the key argument presented is that functional seating needs to assist the person using it for the performance of seated tasks, enhance rather than detract from the person's posture and health, and it needs to provide aesthetic features that do not limit task or health. The book spans the period 3000BC to 2000AD and presents largely Western seating. This book is unique in its approach to seating because it draws together evidence that relates to seating that facilitates health and task while also addressing aesthetic factors. This evidence creates an understanding of how seats may be designed to not only promote bodily health but also allow functional optimisation of sitting and seating. This book is important to furniture and industrial designers, interior decorators, architects, those teaching seat design, health professionals attending and educating those who relax or work in the seated position, furniture historians, and members of the general public interested in the history of seating.