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Bauhaus and Furniture Design, 2006.
An examination of the influence of Marcel Breuer upon modern furniture design.
2,048 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines the furniture designs of one of the Bauhaus' most famous designers, Marcel Breuer (in the context of the Bauhaus and the modern movement). The paper argues that Breuer's furniture designs reflect the overall Bauhaus interest in the application of industrial mass production to the creation of domestic spaces defined by quality design. The writer explains that although the Bauhaus was to only exist for a few short years before its closing by Germany's Nazi government in 1933, its ethos can be seen to be reflected in much of Breuer's innovations in furniture design. The writer also notes that Marcel Breuer's furniture design would prove so enduring and popular that it came to be characteristic of the modern movement. The writer concludes that in situating Breuer within the context of the Bauhaus, we can see how his modernist vision evolved from an emphasis upon aesthetic principles to a focus upon the primacy of industrial design that may be inexpensively reproduced through mass production techniques. An annotated bibliography is appended.
Outline:
Introduction
The Bauhaus Vision
Marcel Breuer and Modern Furniture Design
Conclusion
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"The Bauhaus School that came into being in Germany in the wake of the First World War represented arguably the single most influential school in the history of modern design. Headed by figures such as Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, and defined by a socially egalitarian ethos that envisioned industrial production as the key to presenting quality designed products for the general public, the Bauhaus was to play a critical role in the shaping of how the twentieth century perceived modern design."
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Furniture: Making it Movable in a Movable Society, 2002.
A discussion on how furniture design today reflects a more mobile and changing society.
1,845 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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The paper studies people's changing method of furniture buying as society's tastes change. Society today is very different than what it was thirty years ago. Our tastes today are very mobile, and hence, furniture is reflecting this notion. The paper shows that as technology has advanced our society, our tastes have also changed and these tastes further affect what the general public wants as far as art, film, and furniture. The paper explores how the growing aspect of technology today has influenced manufactures to develop furniture with interchangeable parts, as well as furniture that is flexible, easier to move, assemble, and reassemble. All of these factors also assist people with saving space within their living quarters as well as moving their furniture more easily. The paper explores the use of plywood and the need of saving time and space.
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"The formation of plywood in layers permits it to be bent into curved shapes by stretching and compression under heat or steam. Again, this permits people in our ever-moving society to skew their furniture to fit their needs. For the piece that forms the continuous back and seat of a chair it can be used as thin as a quarter-of-an-inch. Because of the cross-grained lamination, expansion and contraction under changes of heat or humidity become negligible. Nor can plywood split or warp under normal conditions."
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Purchasing Furniture, 2006.
This paper examines the processes involved when a consumer buys furniture.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper discusses how furniture buying holds the same general purchase decision process as other items. The first step in the furniture buying process, for a consumer, is problem recognition. In this step, the consumer recognizes their need or desire for a piece of furniture. This can be triggered by something internally, or an external stimulus, including; a change within their own home, an in-store furniture display or even an advertisement. The paper explains that this motivation to purchase a piece of furniture may be either rational or emotional. Once this need or want is identified, the consumer then begins an information search on possibilities of how to fulfill this need or want.
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History of Furniture Design, 2007.
This paper explores how the growth of domesticity in the Middle Ages affected furniture design.
2,618 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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The paper argues that the evolution of the concept of domesticity - and its associated impact upon furniture design - was closely associated with the rise of the bourgeois or middle class and the gradual preeminence of urban living as the defining lifestyle of the Middle Ages. The paper shows how the merchant classes of medieval European cities were the primary agents of historical and social change and innovations in furniture design.
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Introduction
The Rise of the Middle Class
The Early Medieval Home and Furniture
The Evolution of the Language of Domesticity
The Signification of Furniture
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"It must be acknowledged that in making the argument that it was the early European middle classes in their small city dwellings, and not the medieval nobility in their huge, picturesque castles, who were primarily significant in terms of the evolution of domesticity and furniture design one is challenging a popular image of medieval history. However, while the nobility were undeniably the ruling class in medieval Europe, the history of the Middle Ages can also be read as a history of the decline of aristocratic power and the rise of the middle class."
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Ashely Furniture and its Business Model, 2007.
This paper describes the business model for Ashley Furniture.
2,671 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 80.95
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Ashley Furniture is a large, continuously growing, and dynamic organization. This paper describes the company's goals according to the outlook of its owners. The author highlights Ashley Furniture's incentive program, such as rewards for employees that strive towards improving their workplace. The paper also explores competition in the market place and how the company deals with it. Charts illustrate the company's growth, and its mission statement is given considerable attention. The author interviewed the president of the company and his comments are an integral part of the paper.
Table of Contents:
Ashley Furniture Industries Report
References
Background
Organizational Structure
Leadership
Culture
Interview Info
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"There are formal and informal rewards for employees. Along with having competitive pay and excellent benefits, there are other programs in place to promote productivity and lower costs. Ashley Furniture can boast of a widely used suggestion program that pays rewards for suggestions that are implemented. There is also a company wide reward payout to all employees for their efforts to reduce levels of scrap and waste. There is a formal awards banquet held every year to recognize top performers. One could argue most employees utilize the suggestion system not for the monetary rewards but to truly improve their workplace. Another monetary reward comes in the form of how employees are paid. Hourly production employees are paid by the piece rate method. This method rewards or pays employees for their productivity. This is not the best system for all employees. The employees who have; the motivation and willingness to continuously improve their efficiencies, do well with this system (Wanek, 2006)."
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Mission Style Furniture Movement, 2005.
An historical view of the Art's and Crafts (Mission Style) furniture movement. Looks at how the style is changing and advancing.
2,510 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This literature review research paper examines the history of the Mission Style (Arts and Crafts) furniture and style movement. The brief history of materials and style gives a feeling of how this movement evolved and grew into the Prairie home style, which includes home design. It explains how modern reaction to the computer age has adapted the Mission style furniture to include modern materials and mass production to enable more people the opportunity to enjoy the style, function, and feeling of the original-era furniture.
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"The start of the Mission Style furniture era started in San Francisco, California in 1894. This Mission Style movement started in the Mission Communities in California when the Missions were training people to be furniture craftspeople. Often the materials they used were what were available locally. These materials included timber, fine wood, finishes, blacksmith nails, castings and hardware. (Mission Furniture 1980). The furniture built in this Mission Style was and is a blend of form and function that blends the natural beauty and warmth of the materials used."
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Furniture Manufacturing in Canada, 2005.
A case study discussing the successes and failure of the furniture manufacturing industry in Canada.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, $ 80.95
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The paper describes the Canadian furniture sector prior to the advent of free trade in the 1980s. The paper then proceeds to briefly outline the impact of the free trade agreement upon Canadian furniture manufacturers. That being done, the paper reviews how Canadian industrial and furniture manufacturers were able to overcome the challenges posed by free trade to reinvigorate themselves as the 1990s drew to a close.
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"Furniture Manufacturing in Canada: Successes and Failures and One Case Study In recent years, the issue of economic disparity within the Canadian Confederation has become a very pressing one. This is true not only in high-profile sectors but in sectors such as the furniture manufacturing sector which, although it employs more than 100,000 Canadians at last count, is often treated dismissively by those in and out of Canadian government. "
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Renaissance Furniture, 2006.
An examination of Renaissance furniture, its design and what it said about the people of that era.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 2 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper discusses Renaissance furniture and notes that the prevailing view that the Renaissance involved a growing interest in classical forms applies to many of the arts but may not apply to the design of furniture, with the ostentatious nature of many furnishings suggesting instead a desire for class distinction based on social and economic changes taking place at the time.
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"The Renaissance was a period seen as a rebirth of learning on the classical model. The modern conception of the Renaissance actually derives from the nineteenth century in the work of Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, who published a pioneering work in 1860 in which he saw the Renaissance as almost purely cultural, as the work of a small Italian elite pioneering a new attitude toward human beings. They now saw human beings as people who had suddenly acquired a new consciousness of their own uniqueness and individuality."
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Furniture Giants, 2001.
How three furniture companies succeeded where others failed.
1,950 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper examines the marketing strategies of three furniture companies to explain why they have succeeded where others have failed.
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"One of the major Ethan Allen company trademarks is that they were first to display their furniture as a room would look with all the pieces arranged and thus giving customers a look at like what their home could look if they were to purchase all the included pieces."
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The Case of Gallery Furniture, 2004.
This paper is a case study of Gallery Furniture that uses a buyer-oriented marketing approach.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 34.95
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This paper explains that the objective of Gallery Furniture is to serve a wide market at the upper-low and middle market segments; the company is well served by this strategy. The author points out that, if the company were to expand geographically, it would have to use zone pricing of delivery. The paper states that, on the company's Web site, showing the photos of the showroom exactly as a low- to-middle level showroom looks, instead of having a more artful Web arrangement of selected items as might be the case in a more upscale Web presentation, supports the firm?s strategic position.
Table of Contents
General Pricing Strategy
Pricing the Geographically Expanding Market
Internal and External Concerns
Product-Mix Pricing Strategies
Psychological Pricing
The Web Site
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"Internal factors that would influence the decision would be: whether the store could obtain or get commitments for sufficient quantities of their online items (which in this case is the entire inventory) to serve a region or the nation; whether the logistics of setting up either distribution from a central warehouse or setting up regional warehouses is affordable and acceptable to the operation of the company without diminishing its service to markets it already serves; whether it could set up a service operation sufficient to handle orders nationally or even regionally; whether it had the advertising budget to promote its goods and services regionally or nationally, or whether it would be wise to seek investment to do so."
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Colonial Furniture, 1996.
Early Amer. styles (Chippendale, Queen Anne, blockfront), materials, consumer needs, British influence, paint, carvings.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 8 sources, $ 79.95
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"Most colonial furniture was the product of the settlers' practical need for the basics of existence. On their arrival the first colonists had to cope with the problems of survival and the difficulties of the voyage had allowed them to bring very few of their possessions along. At first they were unable to concern themselves with any but the most basic uses of "time and precious human resources" and furniture makers' skills were needed elsewhere. But they did carry with them their "deeply embedded habits, customs and tastes" and the "old forms and the tools needed to make them were reproduced virtually unchanged and persisted long after they had been abandoned 'back home'" and were to be the basis of new, specifically American versions of European furniture styles. Within the broad field of colonial furniture styles it is possible to select a few topics that..."
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Marketing Plan, Outdoor Furniture, 2002.
Presents a plan to market the RelaxPak, focusing primarily on the Canadian consumer market.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 1 source, $ 89.95
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In this detailed marketing analysis, the plans for promoting the RelaxPak, which is an accessory for an outdoor chair called the Muskoka Chair, are provided. This plan includes an executive summary describing the product and then outlines specific issues and marketing strategies in a point-by-point analysis. The product being researched here is discussed in the contexts of marketing to Canadian consumers.
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Bauhaus, 2004.
This paper discusses the design movement called Bauhaus, which was initiated by German architect Walter Gropius in Wiemar, Germany, in 1919.
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that Walter Gropius applied classical architectural techniques to design theory, believing that there is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. Thereby, he introduced a completely new set of design principles called Bauhaus to art and crafts. The author points out that, though the Bauhaus movement was inspired by Cubism and Minimalism in design, it was still a unique, revolutionary movement. Some of the key features of this movement included less emphasis on detail and more on economic use of space. The paper relates that Bauhaus popularized functional design, a technique that focused specifically on the major functions of everything, including buildings, textiles, tables, and lamps to make them more easily accessible and usable. Color illustrations.
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"Bauhaus artists included such prominent names as Mies van der Rohe, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer, who are responsible for bringing dramatic changes in the field of art and design. It is commonly believed that every change in design after the Bauhaus movement is inspired by the principles and techniques of this style. It can be rightly called the mother of all design movements in 20th century because till this day, we can see the impact of Bauhaus in the field of arts, architecture and crafts."
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Schools of Design, 2002.
An overview of the history and philosophies of two schools of design in the post-WWI era - Bauhaus and Art Deco,
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper will be a discussion of the two very important schools of design which were started after World War I. They are: The Bauhaus school which was a German perspective on design and Art Deco. Both of these designs or ways of thinking and doing design were very important and very influential in this 20th century.
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IKEA vs. Bauhaus, 2005.
An argument against the idea that IKEA bases its products on the Bauhaus movement.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper explains the view of IKEA's inheritance of the Bauhaus movement in functional, minimalist design that is affordable by the masses. It explains that IKEA, however much it refers in advertising and promotion to the Bauhaus and Bauhaus ideals, is rather opposite, due to their sparse, attractive design, appealing to a fairly prosperous consumer market, their corporate agenda and the non-functionality of items in terms of limited durability, assembly design difficulties and cheap finishes.
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"IKEA vs. the Reform Ideals of the Bauhaus. Introduction The design purchased, now globally, from IKEA stores is popularly said to approximate Bauhaus furniture and philosophy of the early 20th century. This paper explores the degree to which this is so, finding an important difference in the overall concept of the Bauhaus and a pioneering design concept put into practical use, and the corporate agenda of IKEA, as it delivers sparsely designed, usually functional products whose clean lines appeal to many kinds of consumers. In the 21st century's hyper-consumerism that both drives and results from Globalization, the involvement of art and design in ordinary, strategic business activities is not new. (Darso & Dawids:2002)"
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