Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design
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 inexpe
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Antoinette LaFarge
Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design
Antoinette LaFarge
Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design
Antoinette LaFarge University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-32340-0 ISBN 978-3-030-32341-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32341-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © John Rawsterne/patternhead.com, Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993–2007 The Edgar Cayce Foundation. All Rights Reserved. This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Dedicated to my mother: Maria Barbera Boissevain La Farge, the first feminist in my life
Preface
This book owes its existence to my penchant for rummaging in archives. One day, hunting about among documents at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Los Angeles, I discovered a tattered copy of the Ladies’ Home Journal from 1910. Leafing through it, I came across an illustration of Louise Brigham’s dining room, accompanying one of her several articles for the LHJ on the subject of furniture made from recycled boxes. This image fairly leaped off the page at me, the starkness of Brigham’s rectilinear box furniture startling in its contrast with the plush and cozy home furnishings illustrated throughout the rest of the issue. Intrigued, I started to tug on this thread that chance had dropped in my lap: who was this Louise Brigham, and why hadn’t I heard of her? One thing led to another, and before too long I was writing what I initially thought would be a fairly straightforward essay about her work with box furniture. As I de
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