CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/30/2020

Behold Vitra's monumental 'Atlas of Furniture Design'!

Featuring 2,852 gorgeous color images of 1,740 objects produced over the last 237 years by 546 designers and 565 manufacturers, Vitra's 1,028-page Atlas of Furniture Design is truly the greatest and most comprehensive book on furniture design in the history of modern publishing. Cataloging everything from aircraft seats to wheelchairs and spanning Alvar and Aino Aalto to Oskar Zieta, the book contains 551 scholarly texts by 71 authors, and also happens to be an exemplary object in and of itself—approximately 3-inches wide at the spine and featuring numerous deluxe papers, gatefolds, new and vintage photography, timelines, details, designer and author biographies, glossaries of manufacturers, materials and production techniques, and an extensive bibliography, index and image credit section. A feat of design publishing.