Overview
- Offers the first comprehensive history of the life of Louise Brigham, a forerunner of today’s green design movement
- Analyzes Brigham’s approach to furniture design, highlighting her innovative use of recycled materials, the influence of Austrian designer Josef Hoffmann and the Arts and Crafts movement on her work, and her emphasis on modular, multifunctional pieces for small spaces
- Appeals to scholars, students, and readers interested American design history, women’s history, the Progressive Era, do-it-yourself design, modular design, and sustainability
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Book Title: Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design
Authors: Antoinette LaFarge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32341-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32340-0Published: 06 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32341-7Published: 24 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 131
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, Modern History, Women's Studies, Architectural History and Theory