The distinguished Italian furniture manufacturing company Cassina invited Karl Lagerfeld to choose his favorite pieces of furniture for an unusual photographic mise-en-scène: "I had never 'worked' on a project like this before. To visually reinterpret examples of perfect design is completely new for me, and therefore stimulating, exciting even." Before Lagerfeld's lens, iconic chairs, tables and chaise longues by Modernist legends such as Le Corbusier, Rietveld and Perriand condense to their absolute, abstract essence. In his inimitably sleek and sophisticated photographs, Lagerfeld reveals the form in Formalism. Here furniture is seen in an atypical, decontextualized mode of presentation, detached from its usual environment, isolated and dramatically lit like a sculpture. The result is a tenderly chosen compendium of twenty-one images that respects the artistic intentions of the designers while simultaneously creating a new aesthetic. Printed on Somerset Book Paper. 21 high-glossy photographs tipped-in by hand.

Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, book dealer and publisher, began working as a photographer in 1987. Lagerfeld has received the Lucky Strike Design Award from the Raymond Lewy Foundation, the Kulturpreis from the German Photographic Society, and the ICP Trustees Award from the International Center of. His book The Little Black Jacket (Steidl 2012) is an international bestseller. The photographs from this series are shown in a world-touring exhibition. Lagerfeld recently published Reklame. Frühe Werbung auf Plakaten, a collector's box presenting his exquisite poster collection and including reprints of some of the most sought-after reference books regarding early advertisement design.

Hersteller:
Steidl Verlag
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DE 37073 Göttingen