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Silla mexicana = Mexican chair / textos, Ana Elena Mallet, Jorge F. Rivas Pérez ; fotografía, Jorge Vértiz.

Mallet Cárdenas, Ana Elena, (writer of supplementary textual content.). Rivas, Jorge, (writer of supplementary textual content.). Vértiz, Jorge, (photographer.).

Summary:

The chair has always been more than a utilitarian item in Mexican culture. The chair's utility, its fundamental importance in everyday life, has made it a productive site for experimentation, producing some of the most iconic examples of Mexican design. In this volume, design curator Anna Elena Mallet explores the chair in Mexican cultural and design history. Organized chronologically as an illustrated timeline, Silla Mexicana presents a lively history of the chair from folk art to colonial-period manufacturing, culminating in the creations of contemporary architects and designers the chair as a collector's item as well as a functional object. Designers surveyed in this volume include Gaston Chaussat, William Spratling, Michael van Beuren, Eleuterio Cortés and Luis Barragán, Ezekiel Farca, Jorge Moreno, Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta, Anne Monique Renee Midy, Victor Klassen, Lucio Muniain and Carlos Mapelli, Alejandra and Cecelia Prieto, Louis Poiré and many more.

Record details

ISBN: 9786079489250
ISBN: 6079489252
ISBN: 9786077456698
ISBN: 6077456691
Physical Description: 262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Ciudad de México : Arquine : 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes a catalog of the artworks.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Silla mexicana : diseño e identidad = Mexican chair : design and identity / Ana Elena Mallet -- Butacas y butaques : sillas nuevas para el Nuevo Mundo = Butacas and butaques : new chairs for the New World -- Silla mexicana -- Catálogo = Catalogue.
Language Note:	Texts in Spanish and English.