NEUE MÖBEL 7
New Furniture / Muebles Modernos / Meubles Nouveaux
Gerd Hatje [Editor]
Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1964. First edition. Text in English, German, Spanish, and French. Quarto. Evergreen cloth titled in white. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Gray endpapers. 162 [x] pp. 441 black and white photographs. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with sunning to edges and spine darkened. Former owners signature to front free endpaper and sunned textblock edges. A nearly fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket.
8.75 x 12 book, with 172 pages and 441 black and white photographs of contemporary furniture, circa 1964. 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 seventh volume of New Furniture, a series devoted to the survey of international furniture. It contains 441 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 and School Furniture
- Index: Manufacturers, Designers, Photographers
The following Designers, Distributors and Manufacturers are represented in this volume: Eero Aarnio, Hugh Acton, Franco Albini, William Armbruster, Sergio Asti & Sergio Favre, Carl Aübock, Gae Aulenti, Clive Bacon, Jürg Bally, Michael Bayer, Hubert Bennett, Francesco Beraducci, Carlheinz Bergmiller, Werner Blaser, Wolfgang Bley, Frank Bollinger, Osvaldo Borsani, Cees Braakman, Jacques Brule, René Jean Caillette, Terence Conran, Mario Cristiani, Robin Day, Nanna Ditzel, Sven I. Dysthe, Charles Eames, Gunter Eberle, Hans Eichenberger, Egon Eiermann, Karl Erik Ekselius, Yngve Ekström, Etienne Fermigier, Gianfranco Frattini, Kurt Freyer, Helmut Fuchs, Franz Füeg, Eugenio Gerli, Roland Gibbard, Stephen Gip, Ole Gjerlov-Knudsen, Rudolf Glatzel, Paul & Dorothy Goble, Martin Grierson, Pierre Guariche, Frank Guille, Robert Gutmann, Geoffrey D. Harcourt, Robert Haussmann, Herbert Hirche, Peter Hjorth & Arne Karlsen, Fred Hochstrasser, Jan Inge Hovig, Peter Hoyte, Peter Hvidt & O, Molgaard-Nielsen, Arne Jacobsen, Grete Jalk, Henning Jensen, & Torben Valeur, Torsten Johansson, Charles F. Joosten, Eric Ole Jorgensen, George Kasparian, Isamu Kenmochi, Tove & Edvard Kindt-Larsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Florence Knoll, Ib Kofod-Larsen, Kay Korbing, Toivo Korhonen, Niko Krajl, Yrjö Kukkapuro, Ejner Larsen, Estelle & Erwine Laverne, Georg Leonwald, Torben Lind, Hartmut Lohmeyer, Rudolf Lübben, Bender Madsen, Helmut Magg, Renato Magri, Angelo Mangiarotti, Ursula Meyer, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Ernst Moeckl, J. A. Motte, Olivier Mourgue, George Nelson, Steen Ostergaard, Esko Pajamies, Verner Panton, Ico & Luisi Parisi, Pierre Paulin, Peter Raacke, Ernst Race, Roland Rainer, Dieter Rams, Jack Ränge, Bodo Rasch, Harold Richards, Horst Reichl, Gastone Rinaldi, Jens Risom, Alberto Rosselli, Eero Saarinen, Katharina Schaad, Richard Schultz, Stefan Siwinski, Harbo Solvsten, Charles Stendig, Prkko Stenros, Marcel Strässle, Paul Sumi, Alf Svensson, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Theo Tempelman, Kurt Thut, Axel Thygesen, Kristian Vedel, Arno Votteler, Dieter Waeckerlin, Emil Walder, Hans J. Wegner, Illum Wikkelsa, Walter Wirz, Nicos Zographos, Airborne, Arflex, Werkstätte Averskogs Möbelfabrik, Cantieri Carugati, Cassina, E. Kold Christensen, Conran & Company, Dansk Form, Design Associates, Deutsche Werkstätten, Fritz Hansens, Peter Hoyte, Teo Jakob, P. Jeppersen, Kasparians, Hans Kaufeld, Knoll International, Walter Knoll, Herman Miller, Minvielle, Munch Mobler, Poltronova, Race Contracts, Jens Risom, Ry Mobler, Tecno, 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."