Iron Print · 2023
About Furniture Book
- A' Design Award 2023 in Print
- CLIENT: Jesenski & Turk
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About About Furniture Book
There is a lot of literature on furniture in Croatia, however, much of it is geared toward professional audiences. With the book About furniture, the aim was to create a comprehensive handbook that serves as a valuable resource for both students and experts alike. This handbook will provide fundamental, yet pertinent information on the history, categorization, and prominent designers of furniture, making it a frequently referenced tool for those seeking a fundamental understanding of the subject. All the drawings are made by hand by Diana Sokolic.
About the A' Design Award
About Furniture Book is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. About Furniture Book is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. About Furniture Book is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The book is illustrated by hand with 140 illustrations which makes it unique since all the other books about furniture use photographs.
The book has four chapters: history of furniture, furniture in Croatia from 1945 till today, iconic world furniture designs and their authors, vocabulary of forgotten furniture names and a glossary of art history terms. The book is illustrated by hand with 140 illustrations which make it unique since all the other books about furniture use photographs. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The book has 230 pages
Quantity printed: 700
Printer: offset
Typeface: Monserat, Raleway
Jacket printer: offset, color
Paper: Holmen 80g
Binder: hard cover
Size: 170 x 25 x 245 mm
Editor: Jesenski & Turk, Zagreb, Croatia - Tags
- book, furniture, handbook
- Production Technology
- There were more than 300 drawings made by professional artist Diana Sokolic, but only 140 are used in the book in order to make it simple, short, and informative. Huge research was undertaken to present basic and relevant information about characteristics of the furniture history styles, authors and their works.
- Design Challenge
- Finding relevant information about women designers was the most challenging part of the research. Their work and lives are hidden under the names of factories or architects and their studios, especially in Croatia, where educated women designers worked for a monthly pay designing brilliant pieces under the name of the factory they worked for.
- Research
- Researching for the book was long and it took over 7 months since the goal was to give the most important information about the history of furniture and most relevant authors, especially highlighting the work of female authors who were working in big corporations or studios, anonymously until today.
- Inspiration
- There are many books about furniture in Croatia, but most of them are written for professional use. The idea was to fill the gap by making a handbook with the basic information, a book for students as well as scholars; the book that will be used often to get the first but relevant information about the history, types, or authors of furniture.
- Project Duration
- This project started in Zagreb, Croatia, during Covid-19 lockdown time - the ideal time for studying and writing the book in peace. It was finished the same year, but, due to import and printing problems caused by Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine - publishing was delayed until the end of 2022.
The book was published with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture.
