Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design by Antoinette LaFargeEnglish | PDF | 2019 | 141 Pages | ISBN : 3030323404 | 5.39 MB
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” out of recycled materials, she aimed to bring good design to the urban working class.