| 书目名称 | Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design | | 编辑 | Antoinette LaFarge | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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 | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | During the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design. With her ingenious system for building inexpensive but sturdy “box furniture” out of recycled materials, she aimed to bring good design to the urban working class. As Antoinette LaFarge shows, Brigham forged a singular career for herself that embraced working in the American and European settlement movements, publishing a book of box furniture designs, running carpentry workshops in New York, and founding a company that offered some of the earliest ready-to-assemble furniture in the United States. Her work was a resounding critique of capitalism’s waste and an assertion of new values in design—values that stand at the heart of today’s open and green design movements.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Design History; Progressive Era history; Furniture design; DIY movement; Green design movement; IKEA; modu | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32341-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-32341-7 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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