书名：Featherston/费瑟斯顿

出版：Thames & Hudson，2018

作者：Geoff Isaac and Nic Bailey

装帧：精装，288页

语种：英文

尺寸：24x29cm

This is the first book to celebrate the life and work of Grant Featherston (19221995), the Melbourne-based industrial designer best-known for his Contour chairs. This collection was designed and developed in the early 1950s and remains highly sought after by mid-century modern collectors in Australia and overseas often fetching $10,000 or more at auction. Featherston, later joined by his second wife, Mary, designed hundreds of chairs over the next thirty years; however, this astonishing Australian industrial design partnership has gone largely uncelebrated until now. Featherston focuses on the chairs produced between 1947 and 1975 and presents a new biography of the designer, drawn from archival research and interviews with his peers. It is extensively illustrated with over 250 beautiful photographs and includes a selection from the previously unpublished personal archive of Ian Howard, the former Managing Director of Melbourne-based manufacturer Aristoc.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Early Years 2. The Contour Range 3. Beyond Wood4. The Age of Steel: The Aristoc Years 5. The Talk of the Towns 6. The Search foran Australian Style 7. Into the Space Age: The Future is Plastic 8. One Night Seats9. Age of the Beanbag 10. Revival and Legacy