Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space by Yudina, Anna (March 10, 2015) Hardcover

by Anna Yudina

Furnitecture is a sourcebook exploring the furnishings, interior environments, and solutions for small spaces at the meeting point between design and architecture. The book features the work of a rising generation of designers across the globe who are starting to think about furniture in an architectural way, resulting in pieces that brilliantly transform interior spaces.Boosted by digital design and new manufacturing possibilities, furniture design that morphs into “micro architecture” is one of the most innovative fields of design today. Surveyed here are hundreds of examples of these objects, including bookshelves that can dynamically divide and reshape a room, chairs that create intimate room-like enclosures, and self-contained, expandable kitchen cubes. From Chicago-based firm Bureau Spectacular’s “Briefcase house,” and Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s moving boxes within rooms to Dutch designers Makkink Bey’s conversational Ear Chairs and the French atelier 37.2’s series of self-standing cubes, Furnitecture opens the door to a world of design invention and innovation.Presented in a compact, beautifully illustrated format, this volume will be an essential resource for designers and hip consumers everywhere.

Genres: Design, Nonfiction, Architecture

Unknown Binding

First published March 10, 2015

Reviews

[Arie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite a coffee table book, but still a super-quick read with pretty pictures and some rather excellent ideas.

[Jon · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first, this was Ms. chunky glasses waving a dismissive hand horizontally from the wrist while expounding on the juxtoposition of texture and light playing upon...you get it. It was written in a style known as obnoxious art museum snob. I don't know if I was more put off by the tone or the fact that one of the early designs was a shelf that put a support of the upper shelf in the center of a lower shelf. Sure the chosen wood probably had a low deflection to allow for this, but it just rubbed me as bad design.

There were pages and pages of designs that seemed more art than functional, a number of which seemed like they could only be mansion installations for someone looking to impress their hollywood peers, but as the book progressed there were more and more interesting designs--stuff that made me actually rethink the way I see a room. It worked like an art museum: once you can get away from the pretension, you can absorb what you need to from it.

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! This book stimulated every creative brain cell I have. The ideas presented in this book are amazing and revolutionary. I highly recommend this book to every creative person out there regardless if your interests or skills relate to furniture. Anna Yudina has done an excellent job of presenting an amazing group of people who have been able to push the idea of furniture beyond anything you have seen before. This book is not for people rooted in traditional thought patterns or traditional design, it is for people looking for new ideas and those who need some stimulus to propel their artistic endeavors. One of the best books I have read in a long time!

[Chuck Knudsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're looking for a book that features pictures of over-designed and obviously uncomfortable furniture, well, look no further!

[Kamal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish that this book this book had existed while I was studying furniture design.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview and great pictures. Would have benefited from more process drawings or explanations about the designs.

[Christa Van · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very cool items included here and book shelves to make any librarian swoon! I loved the design concepts and the ideas behind many of these pieces. Of course the photos are also beautiful. One thing I can't really do is imagine these pieces loaded up with my junk/treasures ;-)

[Leonard · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't read the entire text of this heavily illustrated book, but I looked at the pictures and admired many of the original designs. It would be good to have some of these in our home.

[Cyndi · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's very interesting and inspiring to see so much modern, unusual furniture in one place.