Pel and Tubular Steel Furniture of the Thirties, The Architectural Association, London 1977
Catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition of pre-war tubular steel furniture designed by Practical Equipment Limited (PEL), arranged by the Architectural Association, London in 1977. Hundreds of black and white images of PEL furniture, particularly chairs.
The catalogue provides “a history of the Pel firm and a record of the various models produced by Pel in date order. The illustrated sections of the catalogue provide a comparative analysis of available models indicating type, finishes, sizes and original market costs. As the catalogues themselves have now been elevated to museum status and are virtually unobtainable the illustrated section will, we trust, serve as a definitive catalogue raisonne of Pel's design and production record. The catalogues reveal, among other things, the changing emphasis of the firm: the first one (1932) stresses the artistic side of their output, the second one (1936) less so, while the last pre-war catalogue (1939) reflects the popular market demand and the exigencies of mass production. The importation into Britain of Finnish moulded plywood furniture and the new designs of Jack Pritchard's 'Isokon' firm (by Breuer and others) after the mid-1930s certainly contributed a new emphasis of its own replacing to a certain extent the interest of designers and architects in bent-metal furniture of the first half of the decade.”
Price: £35
Title: Pel and Tubular Steel Furniture of the Thirties.
Author: Dennis Sharp, Tim Benton and Barbie Campbell Cole
Publisher: Published by The Architectural Association London
Publication date: 1977
Format: Softcover
Total Pages: 64
Condition: Very Good. Ownership inscription go Dr Alastair Grieve, some chips and rubbing to the spine otherwise very good
Provenance: The Art Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02977
Catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition of pre-war tubular steel furniture designed by Practical Equipment Limited (PEL), arranged by the Architectural Association, London in 1977. Hundreds of black and white images of PEL furniture, particularly chairs.
The catalogue provides “a history of the Pel firm and a record of the various models produced by Pel in date order. The illustrated sections of the catalogue provide a comparative analysis of available models indicating type, finishes, sizes and original market costs. As the catalogues themselves have now been elevated to museum status and are virtually unobtainable the illustrated section will, we trust, serve as a definitive catalogue raisonne of Pel's design and production record. The catalogues reveal, among other things, the changing emphasis of the firm: the first one (1932) stresses the artistic side of their output, the second one (1936) less so, while the last pre-war catalogue (1939) reflects the popular market demand and the exigencies of mass production. The importation into Britain of Finnish moulded plywood furniture and the new designs of Jack Pritchard's 'Isokon' firm (by Breuer and others) after the mid-1930s certainly contributed a new emphasis of its own replacing to a certain extent the interest of designers and architects in bent-metal furniture of the first half of the decade.”
Price: £35
Title: Pel and Tubular Steel Furniture of the Thirties.
Author: Dennis Sharp, Tim Benton and Barbie Campbell Cole
Publisher: Published by The Architectural Association London
Publication date: 1977
Format: Softcover
Total Pages: 64
Condition: Very Good. Ownership inscription go Dr Alastair Grieve, some chips and rubbing to the spine otherwise very good
Provenance: The Art Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02977
Catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition of pre-war tubular steel furniture designed by Practical Equipment Limited (PEL), arranged by the Architectural Association, London in 1977. Hundreds of black and white images of PEL furniture, particularly chairs.
The catalogue provides “a history of the Pel firm and a record of the various models produced by Pel in date order. The illustrated sections of the catalogue provide a comparative analysis of available models indicating type, finishes, sizes and original market costs. As the catalogues themselves have now been elevated to museum status and are virtually unobtainable the illustrated section will, we trust, serve as a definitive catalogue raisonne of Pel's design and production record. The catalogues reveal, among other things, the changing emphasis of the firm: the first one (1932) stresses the artistic side of their output, the second one (1936) less so, while the last pre-war catalogue (1939) reflects the popular market demand and the exigencies of mass production. The importation into Britain of Finnish moulded plywood furniture and the new designs of Jack Pritchard's 'Isokon' firm (by Breuer and others) after the mid-1930s certainly contributed a new emphasis of its own replacing to a certain extent the interest of designers and architects in bent-metal furniture of the first half of the decade.”
Price: £35
Title: Pel and Tubular Steel Furniture of the Thirties.
Author: Dennis Sharp, Tim Benton and Barbie Campbell Cole
Publisher: Published by The Architectural Association London
Publication date: 1977
Format: Softcover
Total Pages: 64
Condition: Very Good. Ownership inscription go Dr Alastair Grieve, some chips and rubbing to the spine otherwise very good
Provenance: The Art Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02977
