Chaise Longue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaise Longue write by Baxter Dury. This book was released on 2022-07-07. Chaise Longue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When punk rock star Ian Dury disappeared to make films in the late 80s, he left his teenage son in the care of his roadie, in a rundown flat in Hammersmith. But this was no ordinary roadie; this was the Sulphate Strangler. The Strangler, having taken a lot of LSD in the 60s, was prone to depression, anger and hallucinations. He was also, as the name suggests, a drug dealer. What could possibly go wrong? In a period that we can now only imagine, a young Baxter ricocheted from one adventure to another, narrowly swerving one disaster only immediately to collide with another. At times, his situation was perilous in the extreme - the world is lucky to have him at all. Chaise Longue is an intimate account of those escapades, evocatively illuminating a bohemian west London populated with feverishly grubby characters.
Furniture World
Furniture World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Furniture World write by . This book was released on 1927. Furniture World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rethinking Sitting
Rethinking Sitting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Sitting write by Peter Opsvik. This book was released on 2009-05-12. Rethinking Sitting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Scandinavian furniture designer offers insight into his thinking about sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his pioneering chairs. For millions of years humans have led physically active lives. In recent centuries, however, industrialization has fostered passivity and the growing predominance of the sitting posture for more and more people. Increasingly, chairs and furniture for sitting have become standard pieces of equipment in the workplace, institutions, and private homes. These sitting devices were designed according to the established standard of the chair, based on the accepted western manner of sitting. In Rethinking Sitting, Scandinavian industrial designer Peter Opsvik addresses the issue of whether this is the only, and functionally best, design for the human body. When the various authorities on ergonomics promote their one and only “correct” sitting posture, he says all of them are right: Every recommended sitting posture is good. Opsvik sees it as his task to design chairs that allow as many different sitting postures as possible and make it easy to move and change frequently between positions. In this beautifully illustrated reference Opsvik offers insight into his thinking on the subject of sitting and explains the philosophy that informs his furniture designs. Rethinking Sitting contains important information for everyone who is interested, for professional, educational, or personal reasons, in sitting solutions.
The Eames Lounge Chair
The Eames Lounge Chair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eames Lounge Chair write by Martin P. Eidelberg. This book was released on 2006. The Eames Lounge Chair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book is the first in-depth study of one of the most revered pieces of American furniture, and its equally revered creators. The Eames Lounge Chair explores the design in detail, shedding new light on its development and construction, and on the role played by Ray Eames in its genesis. In situating the Lounge Chair in its cultural, social, and historical contexts, the book reveals its provocative positioning in relation to Modernism and the trajectory of twentieth century design, through its combination of traditional and modern materials, mechanical production, and hand-finishing. The personal and professional recollections of those who knew Charles and Ray Eames confirm the Lounge Chair's enduring appeal and powerful presence, from its arrival - to critical acclaim - in the mid-1950s, when it promised a more comfortable life to postwar Americans, to its latterday appearance in fiction and film as an icon of "Mid-Century Modern" design - and a key indicator of design awareness." "With more than two hundred illustrations, including a superb photographic essay and previously unpublished drawings, film stills, and personal correspondence, this book is the definitive survey of the Lounge Chair and a tribute to its remarkable creators, who, above all, "took their pleasures seriously." The Eames Lounge Chair is essential reading for anyone interested in Modernist design."--BOOK JACKET.
Little Boy Lost
Little Boy Lost - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Little Boy Lost write by Marghanita Laski. This book was released on 2001. Little Boy Lost available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hilary Wainright, a young English poet, had lost his wife and child in France during the war.
