Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design

• Main Author: LaFarge, Antoinette (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-History.; History, Modern.; Women.; Architecture.; US History.; Modern History.; Women's Studies.; Architectural History and Theory.

During the Progressive Era, a time when the field of design was dominated almost entirely by men, a largely forgotten activist and teacher named Louise Brigham became a pioneer of sustainable furniture design. With her ingenious system for building inexpensive but sturdy "box furniture" ou...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction of a Scrap Artist
• 2. The Limits of Education
• 3. Box Furniture
• 4. The Social Program
• 5. The Home Thrift Association
• 6. Ready-to-Assemble Furniture
• 7. Vanishing Act
• 8. Caycean Disciple
• 9. The Contemporary Context.