Limited Edition: Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture
by Sophie Lovell
Available this March, 'Limited Edition', written by Sophie Lovell and published by Birkhauser, follows the design industry’s recent infatuation with Limited Edition furniture.
The demand for unique pieces is steadily increasing. With prototypes, one-offs and limited product lines, designers are making furniture objects outside of, and parallel to, the industrial manufacturing system.
Furniture prototypes have always been an element of the industrial design process, but now they are being brought from the workshops and presented to the public as embodiments of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age. In the global village with its standardized commodities, exclusive one-offs with an artisanal flavor are turning into coveted objects. The limited furniture series so manage to satisfy the collector’s appetite with objects where the boundary between furniture and art dissolve.
Comprising a series on investigative essays based on the author’s ongoing interviews with prominent designers, galleriests and auctioneers, the book offers an in-depth look into this new trend of prototypes, one-offs, and contemporary design at auction.
Limited Edition:Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture
Lovell, Sophie
2009, 255 p. 380 illus. in color., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8895-9
Source: Birkhäuser
Fig Leaf by Tord Boontje © Marcus Gaab p. 6/7
Transplastic by Fernando and Humberto Campana © Estudio Campana p. 55
Bone Chaise Longue by Joris Laarman © Bas Helbers p. 148
