NEW FURNITURE 11
Gerd Hatje and Peter Kaspar [Editors]
Gerd Hatje and Peter Kaspar [Editors]: NEW FURNITURE 11. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1973. First edition. Blue cloth decorated in white. 160 pp. 462 black and white photographs. Blue cloth and jacket with matching dampstains to lower edges that do not translate to the textblock. Price clipped jacket scraped along upper edge of front panel. Sunned edges throughout. A decent copy from the highly coveted reference series. Interior unmarked and clean. Out-of-print. A good or better copy in matching dust jacket.
8.75 x 12 book, with 160 pages and 462 black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, circa 1973. 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 eleventh volume of New Furniture, a series devoted to the survey of international furniture. It contains 462 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."
Contents:
- Introduction
- Illustrations
- Chairs, seating arrangements, beds
- Tables
- Office furniture
- Cabinets and shelves
- Nursery furniture
- Index: manufacturers, designers, photographers
The following Designers, Distributors and Manufacturers are represented in this volume: Artek, Artemide, B&B Italia, Cassina, Cini and Nils, Fritz Hansen, Heal and Son, Kartell, Knoll International, Herman Miller furniture Company, Mobel Italia, Olivetti, Wilhem Renz, Jens Risom, Thonet Industries, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, Cees Braakman, Joe Colombo, Douglas Deeds, Gian Frattini, Frank Gehry, Arne Jacobsen, Vico Magistretti, Enzo Mari, Sergio Mazza, Bruno Munari, Frei Otto, Esko Pajamies, Pierre Paulin, Gio Ponti, Robert Probst, Tobia Scarpa, Carlo Santi, Ettore Sottsass, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Marco Zanuso, Nicos Zographos, Renato Zevi 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."