NEW FURNITURE 10
NEUE MOBEL 10
Gerd Hatje and Elke Kaspar [Editors]
Gerd Hatje and Elke Kaspar [Editors]: NEW FURNITURE 10 [NEUE MOBEL 10]. New York: Praeger, 1971. First edition. Text in English and German. Red cloth decorated in black. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 162 pp. 468 black and white photographs. Jacket with trivial wear along upper and lower edges, but a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
8.75 x 12 book, with 162 pages and 468 black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, circa 1971. Beautifully designed and printed in Germany on high-quality glossy paper. Highly recommended. These volumes -- whether you call them "Neue Mobel," "Meubles Nouveaux," or "Muebles Modernos” -- are actively sought and rarely remain on the market for long. You have been warned.
Whenever you find a book authored by Gerd Hatje you can rest assured you are getting the good stuff: a finely curated selection of contemporary goods, excellent photo reproduction, clean modern design and typography.
A complete index provides names and addresses of designers and manufacturers.
From the dust jacket: "This is the tenth volume of New Furniture, a series devoted to the survey of international furniture. It contains 468 illustrations showing the best and most interesting designs of chairs, sofas, beds, tables, cabinets, shelves, office furniture, and nursery furniture by designers from around the world. This wide scope makes it possible for the reader to compare different trends and to discern future developments.”
“A complete index that includes names and addresses of designers and manufacturers adds greatly to the usefulness of this volume. The magazine "Interiors" has called this series "probably the best international furniture review between two covers available anywhere. It is thorough and broad in its coverage, selected with great taste and a sharp sense of what constitutes interesting design news."
- Introduction
- Illustrations
- Chairs
- Seating Arrangements, Sofas, Beds
- Tables
- Office Furniture
- Cabinets And Shelves
- Nursery Furniture
- Index: Manufacturers, Designers, Photographers
The following Designers, Distributors and Manufacturers are represented in this volume: Aerofoam, Artek, Artemide, Wilhelm Bofinger, Cassina, Domus, Elco, Euroform, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Knoll International, Herman Miller Furniture Company, Wilhem Renz, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Cini Boeri, Cees Braakman, Achille And Pier Castiglione, Joe Colombo, Nanna Ditzel, Charles Eames, Hans Ell, Gian Frattini, Piero Gatti, Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Vico Magistretti, Verner Panton, Pierre Paulin, Gaetano Pesce, Warren Platner, Tobia Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Marco Zanuso, and many, many others.
Gerd Hatje (1915 - 2007) was born in Hamburg in 1915 and apprenticed as a typesetter in Stuttgart, where he started the Humanitas Verlag in 1945. The publishing house was renamed Verlag Gerd Hatje in 1947. His varied interests were reflected in his publishing program, where he concentrated on publishing art books of the highest quality. Among the books he published are some of the best designed art, design, and architecture books of the twentieth century. Hatje was always concerned with quality, both in books and art. He once said, "For me, there is neither a past nor a future in art. A work of art that cannot always exist in the present is not worth talking about." In his words, publishing is the process by which "intellectual spaces are made accessible."