To aficionados, a book bearing the simple title of Stoelen (Chairs) functions as the primary source of information on the collection of chairs belonging to the Faculty (formerly Department) of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. There were at least two editions of this book: one edited by Harm de Jong and published in 1974, and a second published by Delft University Press in 1980. Although the collection was the point of departure for both of these books, the publications were also supplemented by interesting designs that did not belong to the collection itself. Unfortunately, in the last few years these publications have only been available in antiquarian bookshops.

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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials,construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection of over 240 chairs is presented for the first time. Each object is accompanied by images and a thorough description. Also, the book offers comprehensive texts on key designs in the collection, showing the diversity of the collection which consists of world famous designs, 17th,18th and 19th century designs, everyday household chairs and rare pieces of furniture that have never been published before. Among the designers presented are Verner Panton, Gerrit Th. Rietveld,Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jean Prouve,Marcel Breuer and Droog Design.

Introduction

History of the collection

Metal

Synthetic material

Wood

Natural material

Biographies

Bibtiographies

Index

Acknowledgements