American Contemporary Furniture - Tapa blanda

The most visually stimulating, cutting-edge presentation of contemporary furniture design in America ever published, this book presents in unprecedented graphic detail the work of the most promising American furniture designers of today and beyond. Here, as you view the extraordinary work of Portland, Maine's Angela Adams, New York City's Harry Allen and Karim Rashid, Minneapolis's Blu Dot Design, San Francisco's Jeff Covey-- and more than 70 others-- you'll discover why Americans have advanced to the forefront of the world's contemporary furniture design community. A sourcebook of great utility for the trade, it also serves as a tremendously informative guide for style-conscious consumers and students of design.

Marisa Bartolucci is the former executive editor of Metropolis magazine. She is the author of Architecture + Design NYC and is currently working on a book about the making of Frank Gehry's masterwork, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and how it has changed the Basques.

Cathy Lang Ho is an associate editor at Architecture magazine. She is the former editor of Design Book Review, and writes about architecture and design for numerous publications, including ID magazine, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, and The New York Times.

Raul Cabra is the principal of Cabra Diseño Editorial, an award-winning design studio and book packaging firm based in San Francisco, where he designs and develops content for books on design and popular culture. His work is currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Dung Ngo is an independent editor and curator. He is the former editor of exhibitions and publications at the Rice University's School of Architecture, where he mounted exhibitions and published books on Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, and Sol LeWitt, among others.