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"The Origin of Things" is an international survey of the history of design from William Morris to Rem Koolhaas. Giving examples of around thirty case studies, it illuminates the process through which designers transform their often-groundbreaking ideas into products. In the context of this book, drawings, cardboard models stuck together with tape and ultramodern computer(...)
The origin of things : sketches, models, prototypes
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"The Origin of Things" is an international survey of the history of design from William Morris to Rem Koolhaas. Giving examples of around thirty case studies, it illuminates the process through which designers transform their often-groundbreaking ideas into products. In the context of this book, drawings, cardboard models stuck together with tape and ultramodern computer animations are more significant than the finished products. The more historical examples are by Theodor Bogler, H.P. Berlage, Frank Lloyd Wright and Gerrit Rietveld. Dutch design is represented by Wim Gilles, Kho Liang Ie, Aart Roelandt, Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders and Dick van Hoff. There are international highlights from the oeuvres of Richard Buckminster Fuller, Verner Panton, Poul Henningsen, Tapio Wirkkala, Mario Bellini, Michele de Lucchi, James Dyson, Jasper Morrison, Marc Newson and Konstantin Grcic.
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Design for the 21st century
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How do today's best designers see the future of design? Including a cross section of the world's most influential designers, this guide explores cutting edge product design, furniture, ceramics, appliances, electronics, glassware, and textiles.
Design for the 21st century
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How do today's best designers see the future of design? Including a cross section of the world's most influential designers, this guide explores cutting edge product design, furniture, ceramics, appliances, electronics, glassware, and textiles.
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Nick Crosbie’s designs for Inflate have changed the way that we look at domestic objects, with his playful reworking of everyday household items, such as his inflatable fruitbowl, chairs and clothing. Since setting up Inflate in 1995 with, amongst others, Michael Sodeau (also featured in the Serial Books Design series), Crosbie’s signature style has incorporated a(...)
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February 2004, London / New York
Serial books design 5 : I'll keep thinking
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Nick Crosbie’s designs for Inflate have changed the way that we look at domestic objects, with his playful reworking of everyday household items, such as his inflatable fruitbowl, chairs and clothing. Since setting up Inflate in 1995 with, amongst others, Michael Sodeau (also featured in the Serial Books Design series), Crosbie’s signature style has incorporated a colourful palette with unusual materials, expanding his initial domestic objects into larger, architectural designs, such as the inflatable bar premiered at 100% Design in London. This book is the first to explore Crosbie’s practice, comprising extracts from interviews between him and the series’ editor Alexander Payne. Crosbie’s designs are innovative, fun, functional and affordable, and remain at the leading edge of contemporary design.
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Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding. This book consists of two parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); the second, an(...)
Bent ply : the art of plywood furniture
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Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding. This book consists of two parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); the second, an annotated journal of the making of a piece of bent plywood furniture, from the forest to the showroom. "Bent Ply" contains numerous illustrations of the classics of bent ply design, including furniture from Alvar Aalto, Michael Thonet, and Charles and Ray Eames, and examples of its appropriation by the military: John F. Kennedy's PT109 boat and the DeHavilland "Mosquito" were both fabricated from plywood.
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The 70's house
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Often associated in the public's imagination with the excesses of Punk and Glam, the 70s was, in fact, an important watershed for interior domestic design. It marked an essential transition from the Modernist-dominated design culture of the 60s to an era in which style and the individualistic ethos of fashion design became the guiding principles. It can perhaps best be(...)
The 70's house
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Often associated in the public's imagination with the excesses of Punk and Glam, the 70s was, in fact, an important watershed for interior domestic design. It marked an essential transition from the Modernist-dominated design culture of the 60s to an era in which style and the individualistic ethos of fashion design became the guiding principles. It can perhaps best be characterised by the idiosyncratic and inventive designs of Vernon Panton and Ettore Sottsass. In his book, David Heathcote provides a new and fundamentally positive interpretation of the period. He explains how the decade brought forward a plethora of highly diverse styles- Brutalism, Ad Hocism, Eco/Craft Design, Revivalism/Reclaimism and Postmodernism. With the interest in all things futuristic being as much a part of the period as the Victorian Revival and the self-sufficiency/craft craze. Organised by individual style, this book, with its combination of newly commissioned photography and archive images, will be an essential text and visual resource for anyone interested in the 70s.
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"Design, un mot anglais au goût italien": ainsi une télévision annonçait-elle récemment une émission consacrée au design et à l'habitat. Si la formule est bien choisie, elle ne peut toutefois résumer d'un point de vue historique la naissance et l'essor de cette esthétique industrielle qui investit tous les objets de notre vie quotidienne. L'ouvrage, organisé de façon(...)
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September 2005, Paris
Le design : l'évolution des formes, des idées et des matières, de la révolution industrielle à nos jours
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"Design, un mot anglais au goût italien": ainsi une télévision annonçait-elle récemment une émission consacrée au design et à l'habitat. Si la formule est bien choisie, elle ne peut toutefois résumer d'un point de vue historique la naissance et l'essor de cette esthétique industrielle qui investit tous les objets de notre vie quotidienne. L'ouvrage, organisé de façon chronologique, entend offrir au lecteur les instruments nécessaires pour comprendre l'histoire du design dans son ensemble et sa complexité, entre forme et fonction, entre technique et art. Cette histoire est émaillée des créations des grands designers d'hier et d'aujourd'hui et montre comment le design, né dans les usines au service de la production de masse, est arrivé à entrer dans nos maisons comme dans les musées, et à imprimer des tendances esthétiques très marquées.
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This book includes internationally-renowned names such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Peter Saville, Tomato and Tom Dixon, as well as younger designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Shelley Fox, Fuel and Michael Marriott.
Lost and found : critical voices in new British design
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This book includes internationally-renowned names such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Peter Saville, Tomato and Tom Dixon, as well as younger designers such as Hussein Chalayan, Shelley Fox, Fuel and Michael Marriott.
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September 1999, Basel
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Reprint of the 1986 edition.
The cantilever chair / Der Kragstuhl
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Reprint of the 1986 edition.
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August 1999, Köln
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Sophie Tasma-Anargyros has interviewed intellectuals, sociologists, architects, designers, artists and marketing specialists about their perception of the future: François Barré, Alix Brijatoff, Bernard Cathelat, Sylvain Dubuisson, Michele De Lucchi, Jean Nouvel, Marc Sadler, Ettore Sottsass and Philippe Starck. In the second part, Frédéric Loeb deciphers(...)
What if we put the clocks back to zero : hypotheses for probable futures
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Sophie Tasma-Anargyros has interviewed intellectuals, sociologists, architects, designers, artists and marketing specialists about their perception of the future: François Barré, Alix Brijatoff, Bernard Cathelat, Sylvain Dubuisson, Michele De Lucchi, Jean Nouvel, Marc Sadler, Ettore Sottsass and Philippe Starck. In the second part, Frédéric Loeb deciphers the present and puts forward hypotheses concerning contemporary society in the coming years. Each subject dealt with is aptly illustrated and commented on, as a support to thought. This project was initiated by VIA (Valorization of Innovation in Furniture), whose role is to anticipate significant changes in creation.
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November 1998, Paris
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From total look to total living: Alchimia, Tadao Ando, Armani, Vanessa Beecroft, Benetton, Pierre Cardin, CP Company, Courrèges, Diesel, Diller & Scofidio, Droog Design, Final Home, Dan Flavin, Tom Ford, Future Systems, Eileen Gray, Gucci, Andreas Gursky, Halston, Herzog & De Meuron, Tommy Hilfiger, Damien Hirst, Ikea, Philip Johnson, Rei Kawakubo, Calvin Klein, Rem(...)
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January 1900, Milan
Total living : fashion, architecture, design, art, communication
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From total look to total living: Alchimia, Tadao Ando, Armani, Vanessa Beecroft, Benetton, Pierre Cardin, CP Company, Courrèges, Diesel, Diller & Scofidio, Droog Design, Final Home, Dan Flavin, Tom Ford, Future Systems, Eileen Gray, Gucci, Andreas Gursky, Halston, Herzog & De Meuron, Tommy Hilfiger, Damien Hirst, Ikea, Philip Johnson, Rei Kawakubo, Calvin Klein, Rem Koolhaas, Helmut Lang, Le Corbusier, Levi's, Mandarina Duck, Marni, Steven Meisel, Alessandro Mendini, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Issey Miyake, Moschino, Helmut Newton, Nike, NL Architects, Ora-Ito Studio, John Powson, Prada, Emilio Pucci, Ralph Lauren, Claudio Silvestrin, Hedi Slimane, Paul Smith, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Bruce Weber, Yves Saint Laurent. Styles and lifestyles are fast becoming uniform under labels and definitions of fashion, and as an industry and a cultural form. Total Living is the point of no return in a project which, step-by-step, develops strategies whose goal it is to offer an even more sophisticated and targeted lifestyle. It is a place where there are definitions for clothes, behavior modes, and even the atmoshpheres and spaces in which one moves. Assuming the contours of a landscape of the future, this scenario raises topical themes and problems connected with the overwhelming power of consumerism. Accompanying scholarly essays consider the thematic universes of fashion designers and brands; models of total living in 20th century history; references to total living in mass culture; living and eating; arty fashion and fashionable art; the world of fashion design; the languages of shopping; urban fashion districts; and advertising as a narrative. A rich and interconnected iconographic passage visually narrates the various forms and ramifications of total living today and in the recent past through a succession of utopias, life-projects, urban visions, architecture, special homes, stores, art galleries, museums, and editorial pages and ads from fashion and lifestyle magazines. With texts by Papla Antonelli, Francesco Bonami, Michele Ciavarella, Emanuela de Cecco, Riccardo Dirindin, Roberto Monelli, Herbert Muschamp, Chee Pearlman, Michele Sernini, Dietmar Steiner, and Deyan Sudjic.
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