Abstract
The growing interest in Modern furniture, which by now can also be of a respectable age, has lent a new dimension to the profession of furniture conservation. New materials and techniques demand new conservation solutions.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern living, Modern furniture conservation.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 10-13
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.3VGF0EOI

Abstract
Coming to design in a natural development from architectural practice, Le Corbusier considered design not as a sum or addition to architecture. Its existence decisively constructed and modulated interior space, as light and shadows, materials or planes. From that belief, he quests the perfect and ideal form that asserts itself as a model of universal validity, arriving at three different furniture types: type–needs, type–furniture and human limb objects. Consequently, together with Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, in 1928 he drew the prototype of the Grand Confort armchair, presented the following year at the Salon d’Automne in Paris.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern living, Modern design preservation.

Issue 46
Year 2012
Pages 6-9
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/46.A.RNQ217BP

Abstract
Although Chandigarh is linked to Le Corbusier due to the urban planning and the buildings of the Capitol complex, the footprint of the tandem between Jeanneret and the Fry–Drew team goes far beyond as reflected for example in different housing typologies and the design of interesting furniture collections. These have been seldom described and evaluated, perhaps partly due to the lack of attention that the authorities have towards Chandigarh’s heritage.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern global design, Chandigarh modern architecture, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Fry and Drew.

Issue 47
Year 2012
Pages 74-79
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/47.A.HJLNB2H8

Abstract
This study presents a brief history of design in the context of historic avant-gardes. It shows that, in parallel to the more classical historiographical interpretation which followed Pevsner’s ideas to “internationalize” the production of the 20s and 30s, other models with vernacular Latin roots were obviated.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern global design, GATCPAC, MIDVA, Le Corbusier, Catalan modern architecture.

Issue 47
Year 2012
Pages 68-73
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/47.A.TL5QHJGI

Abstract
Designed in late 1932 by Josep Lluís Sert and Josep Torres Clavé, Casa Bloc is one of the paradigmatic works of these architects who represented the most active core of the Modern Movement in Catalonia, known as GATCPAC (Group of Catalan Architects and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture), founded in 1930 echoing the Spanish GATEPAC. I use the word “paradigm” in the sense of a theoretical framework or set of theories. In fact, Casa Bloc was not only the first major social housing building in Barcelona conceived in functional terms but it also exemplifies the reception in this city of the notions of the Modern Movement and how the guidelines recently approved in the 4th CIRPAC Congress were applied.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern global design, GATCPAC, Casa Bloc, Catalan modern architecture, Modern social housing.

Issue 47
Year 2012
Pages 62-67
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/47.A.OSAUWKM3

Abstract
In May 1931, the first issue of the long–awaited Spanish modernity platform appeared: A.C. Actividad Contemporánea. Although the publication of the magazine had become an indispensable requirement for the existence of the GATEPAC, its manufacturing process turned out to be very long and fraught with difficulties.

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern interior design, Furniture modern design, Modern global design, A.C. Actividad Contemporánea, GATEPAC, Spanish modern architecture.

Issue 47
Year 2012
Pages 56-61
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/47.A.HW1ZDODO