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Presents a wave of designers who are applying architectural techniques to create innovative new furnishing optionsFurnitecture 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.
About the Author
Author, journalist, curator. Co-founder of MONITOR magazine (2000-2012) , an international publication about innovations in contemporary architecture and design. Member of A10 New European Architecture Cooperative. Cross-disciplinary collaboration reshapes our cities, redefines our lifestyles, and creates possibilities for a synergy between humans, technology and nature. These new territories are open to exploration, and I'm thrilled to try and map some of them. To date, my books have been published in seven languages (English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Chinese and Korean) and include "Marco Casagrande: Who Cares, Wins the 3G City" (2018, JFAA) ; "Multiverse" (2017, 5 Continents Editions) ; "Furnitecture", "Lumitecture", "Garden City" and "HomeWork" (2014-2018, Thames & Hudson) ; "Phase: the Architecture of Jakob MacFarlane" (2013, AADCU) , and "Eske Rex: Silent Action" (2013) .
