The Beauty of Everyday Objects: The Chair
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Gemini Books Group Ltd
Publishing:8th Apr '27
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 8th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Celebrating 50 innovative and significant chair designs, each entry highlights how a commonplace item is a reflection of creativity, craftsmanship and the human experience. This is not just a book for design enthusiasts — it is for anyone who appreciates the quiet elegance of well-made objects that merge form and function.
Organized chronologically, there are a host of iconic pieces, from Marcel Breuer's classic B3 and Jean Prouvé’s Standard Chair No.4 with its industrial clarity, to Jasper Morrison’s playfully minimalist Air-Chair, alongside vernacular creations that reveal how cultural needs shape utility and beauty. Each piece is treated as a story about form, function, material and the people who imagined them.
The book finds wonder in the ordinary – celebrating chairs as objects we use every day, often without noticing the design thought behind them.
The Beauty of Everyday Objects
This small-format, accessible design series celebrates humble, ordinary objects that we interact with every day – the functional and beautiful things that spark joy. Each book features 50 design products that have altered the way we live, work and think.
'From Marcel Breuer’s tubular-steel experiments to the algorithmic forms of the twenty-first century, the modernist chair provides a remarkably sensitive register of cultural change, condensing new ideas about industry, materials and everyday life into a single object. This insightful book traces a century of radical seating, revealing how designers have continually reimagined the chair as both a machine for sitting and a powerful expression of modernity’s shifting ideals.' -- Dr Christopher Turner, Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design, * Victoria and Albert Museum *
'The Beauty of Everyday Objects: The Chair is a quintessential – and joyful! – read for designers and design fans alike. John Jervis’ book provides plenty of insight into why we’re so fascinated by chairs, as well as a superbly curated selection of pieces; some of which I knew very well and some that were a welcome new acquaintance.' -- Cajsa Carlson, Editor * Dezeen magazine *
ISBN: 9781914902307
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128 pages