Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design

Author:   Antoinette LaFarge
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9783030323400


Pages:   131
Publication Date:   06 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design


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During the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design. With her ingenious system for building inexpensive but sturdy “box furniture” out of recycled materials, she aimed to bring good design to the urban working class. As Antoinette LaFarge shows, Brigham forged a singular career for herself that embraced working in the American and European settlement movements, publishing a book of box furniture designs, running carpentry workshops in New York, and founding a company that offered some of the earliest ready-to-assemble furniture in the United States. Her work was a resounding critique of capitalism’s waste and an assertion of new values in design—values that stand at the heart of today’s open and green design movements.

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Author:   Antoinette LaFarge
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030323400


ISBN 10:   3030323404
Pages:   131
Publication Date:   06 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction of a Scrap Artist.- 2. The Limits of Education.- 3. Box Furniture.- 4. The Social Program.- 5. The Home Thrift Association.- 6. Ready-to-Assemble Furniture.- 7. Vanishing Act.- 8. Caycean Disciple.- 9. The Contemporary Context.

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Antoinette LaFarge is Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

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