The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has been collecting furniture since 1934, focusing on designs from circa 1850 to the present with the accent on the twentieth century. The furniture collection now includes more than 1000 objects: chairs, settees, tables, room screens, cupboards and even complete interiors.
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the Stedelijk Museum's furniture collecting activities from 1934 to 2000. It charts the rich collection, which includes work by H.P. Berlage, K.P.C de Bazel, Piet Kramer, Gerrit T. Rietveld, Martin Visser, Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, as well as international furniture classics designed by Michael Thonet, Charlotte Perriand, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Joe Colombo, Arne Jacobsen, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck and Ron Arad. Besides a complete overview of the furniture collection, this annotated catalogue includes an introduction to the history of the collection and exhibition activities. In addition, the volume explores various themes, for example international and Dutch icons, contrasts and evolutions, in greater depth in a number of short essays.
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