Penguin Books Australia

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs is an exhaustive visual history of the office chair. The book illustrates over 180 of the most innovative office chairs, from the 1840s to the present, includes a huge selection of technical drawings, and a series of essays by designer and design consultant Jonathan Olivares. The book dissects the design of the office chair into its separate elements and categorises and...

Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) founded his own design company, Craftsman Workshops, with his brother in upstate New York in 1898. The company was highly successful through the 1920s and eventually became a national enterprise with retail stores in New York, Boston, and Washington, DC.

A new paperback version of the first monograph on the furniture and interior design of Carlo Mollino, one of the most original Italian designers of the twentieth century. Realized in collaboration with the Museo Casa Mollino, it is extensively illustrated with over 400 sketches, drawings and archival photographs.