Design of a Furniture Collection from Start to Finish
History of furniture design
A course by Luis Arredondo , Industrial Designer and Woodworker
About the video: History of furniture design
Overview
“I'll start this unit by taking you on a tour of the history of furniture design. I will tell you about the design icons that I consider most important, their authors, their context and the influence they had on the world. ”
In this video lesson Luis Arredondo addresses the topic: History of furniture design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design of a Furniture Collection from Start to Finish. Learn to transform a concept into multiple pieces of furniture that share the same aesthetic.
Partial transcription of the video
“History of design and furniture design Hello again. Now that we know each other more, we will enter the first stage of this course. From its oldest origins, human beings used logs, stones or skins, whether to sit down, contain some food or lie down, seeking to better adapt to the context. However, it took a long time so that furniture emerged as we know it today. To design a piece of furniture, there are external factors that influence this, from economic, political, ecological and even social and cultural. These come to have a lot of weight in their concept, in its aesthetics, in its funct...”
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Course summary for: Design of a Furniture Collection from Start to Finish
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Areas
Furniture Design & Making, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Woodworking
Luis Arredondo
A course by Luis Arredondo
Luis Arredondo is a Mexican industrial designer as well as founder and creative director of Taller Nacional and the experimental design studio BESTIA. Taller Nacional is a design firm with its own production workshop where a team of designers, architects, carpenters, and woodworkers conceptualize, design, develop, and manufacture furniture and objects that bring style into the spaces they occupy while creating a positive social impact.
Luis and the team at Taller Nacional have participated in exhibitions at the London Design Museum, the Galería Mexicana de Diseño, MUAC, MACO, MUNAL, and the Franz Mayer Museum, among others. They have also collaborated on a variety of interior design, home furniture, retail, and corporate projects like Mercado Roma Coyoacán, Cuccina, Bar Xaman, Limantour Bar, Hotel Casa Pancha, and Emporio Cancún.
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