books
$84.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Anni Albers (1899-1994) was one of the twentieth century's greatest textile pioneers, and a versatile artist/craftswoman. Over the next 20 years, she created a series of prints that translated her textile innovations and her Bauhaus sensibility into this medium, introducing Mexican colors into her palette and exploring new lithography techniques, offset printing,(...)
The prints of Anni Albers: catalogue raisonne
Actions:
Price:
$84.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Anni Albers (1899-1994) was one of the twentieth century's greatest textile pioneers, and a versatile artist/craftswoman. Over the next 20 years, she created a series of prints that translated her textile innovations and her Bauhaus sensibility into this medium, introducing Mexican colors into her palette and exploring new lithography techniques, offset printing, photographic processes and silkscreen. This publication is a catalogue raisonne of these prints, creating at last a definitive collection of this extremely significant and previously underdocumented portion of Albers' output.
books
October 2009
Design Monographs
Carlo Mollino : arabesque
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Arabesques is a celebration of the life and achievements of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)--architect, designer, author and photographer, and one of Italy's most extraordinary cultural innovators. In a 100 color and 80 black and white illustrations, and with commentary by an array of contemporary Mollino scholars, it examines his famously elegant furniture designs, a selection(...)
Carlo Mollino : arabesque
Actions:
Price:
$72.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Arabesques is a celebration of the life and achievements of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973)--architect, designer, author and photographer, and one of Italy's most extraordinary cultural innovators. In a 100 color and 80 black and white illustrations, and with commentary by an array of contemporary Mollino scholars, it examines his famously elegant furniture designs, a selection of his most iconic buildings, his wonderfully futuristic aeroplane and automobile designs and a portfolio of his photographic portraits of women. Mollino's approach was often synthetic; his interiors (which were almost always commissioned) integrated his furniture, interior design and architecture towards a unified aesthetic environment, expressing a coherent aesthetic of elegance and energetic sinuousness.
Design Monographs
Luceplan worldwide
$42.00
(available to order)
Summary:
For over thirty years protagonist of the best international design, Luceplan presents itself through lighting projects realized all over the world; featuring work by "starchitects" as well as young talents.
Luceplan worldwide
Actions:
Price:
$42.00
(available to order)
Summary:
For over thirty years protagonist of the best international design, Luceplan presents itself through lighting projects realized all over the world; featuring work by "starchitects" as well as young talents.
Design Monographs
books
$33.00
(available to order)
Summary:
«As any other human activity, also Architecture needs to progress. I hope that this "little" "Pink Pavillion" could make people reflect on the urgent need for a renewal in the Art of Building, on pink as the colour of the future, reminding young architects that Architecture is made of three indivisible factors: innovation in language, in technique, and the use of new(...)
Gaetano Pesce : Pink Pavilion
Actions:
Price:
$33.00
(available to order)
Summary:
«As any other human activity, also Architecture needs to progress. I hope that this "little" "Pink Pavillion" could make people reflect on the urgent need for a renewal in the Art of Building, on pink as the colour of the future, reminding young architects that Architecture is made of three indivisible factors: innovation in language, in technique, and the use of new materials. » -Gaetano Pesce
books
November 2008
Design Monographs
$28.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Max Bill (1904-1994)- a product of the Bauhaus at Dessau, pupil of Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee- was a virtuoso designer whose work overleaped disciplinary boundaries, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial and graphic design, as well as education. What unites all the work is a clarity and precision of expression. Through both his(...)
AA words 5: Form, function, beauty = gestalt
Actions:
Price:
$28.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Max Bill (1904-1994)- a product of the Bauhaus at Dessau, pupil of Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee- was a virtuoso designer whose work overleaped disciplinary boundaries, encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial and graphic design, as well as education. What unites all the work is a clarity and precision of expression. Through both his designs and his writings Max Bill has long been a major figure of reference in the German-speaking world. This collection makes many of his key texts available in English for the first time.
Design Monographs
$104.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This monograph chronicles the complete spectrum of Gio Ponti’s output, from early ceramic work as design director for Richard Ginori to his last and most famous architectural works, Milan’s Pirelli Tower and the Museum of Modern Art in Denver. Also featured are Ponti’s automobile designs for Alfa Romeo, interiors for Italian luxury liners, bathroom fixtures for American(...)
Gio Ponti
Actions:
Price:
$104.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This monograph chronicles the complete spectrum of Gio Ponti’s output, from early ceramic work as design director for Richard Ginori to his last and most famous architectural works, Milan’s Pirelli Tower and the Museum of Modern Art in Denver. Also featured are Ponti’s automobile designs for Alfa Romeo, interiors for Italian luxury liners, bathroom fixtures for American Standard, the famous Superleggera chair for Cassina, and the Alitalia offices in New York.
Design Monographs
Gianni Piacentino
$59.00
(available in store)
Summary:
Première monographie : un hommage à Gianni Piacentino, artiste autodidacte parmi les plus singuliers de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, protagoniste de la première période de l'Arte Povera, précurseur du minimalisme en Italie (parallèlement, designer de motos de compétition et pilote), auteur d'une œuvre inclassable dont le vocabulaire original explore les limites et la(...)
Gianni Piacentino
Actions:
Price:
$59.00
(available in store)
Summary:
Première monographie : un hommage à Gianni Piacentino, artiste autodidacte parmi les plus singuliers de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, protagoniste de la première période de l'Arte Povera, précurseur du minimalisme en Italie (parallèlement, designer de motos de compétition et pilote), auteur d'une œuvre inclassable dont le vocabulaire original explore les limites et la complexité des rapports entre art et design industriel (avec des contributions de Andrea Bellini, Dan Cameron, Christophe Kihm, Marc-Oliver Wahler, Laura Cherubini et une interview de l'artiste par Hans Ulrich Obrist).
Design Monographs
$107.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Monographie relatant le parcours de la décoratrice Eyre de Lanux (1894-1996) qui dès son arrivée en France fréquenta la scène artistique locale et participe au Salon des décorateurs en 1928. Elle utilise le laque, la marqueterie de paille mais aussi des matières nouvelles pour l’époque comme le liège, l’ambre, le linoléum.
Eyre de Lanux : une décoratrice américaine à Paris
Actions:
Price:
$107.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Monographie relatant le parcours de la décoratrice Eyre de Lanux (1894-1996) qui dès son arrivée en France fréquenta la scène artistique locale et participe au Salon des décorateurs en 1928. Elle utilise le laque, la marqueterie de paille mais aussi des matières nouvelles pour l’époque comme le liège, l’ambre, le linoléum.
Design Monographs
$58.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Painter, engraver and printer, designer, collector, stylist, refined craftsman, art gallery manager and exhibition promoter, Piero Fornasetti was an extremely rich and complex personality. He designed and made approximately 13,000 objects and decorations. His world is animated by the rigour of project, of art and craftsmanship, but also by unbridled fantasy, surrealist(...)
Piero Fornasetti: one hundred years of practical madness
Actions:
Price:
$58.95
(available in store)
Summary:
Painter, engraver and printer, designer, collector, stylist, refined craftsman, art gallery manager and exhibition promoter, Piero Fornasetti was an extremely rich and complex personality. He designed and made approximately 13,000 objects and decorations. His world is animated by the rigour of project, of art and craftsmanship, but also by unbridled fantasy, surrealist invention and poetry. This book accompanies the exhibition of the Triennale Design Museum, curated by Barnaba Fornasetti, the first grand and unprecedented exhibition in Italy of the artist’s work.
Design Monographs
$195.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Charlotte Perriand is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century interior design. Together with her contemporaries and collaborators Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, she created many pieces of furniture we now consider classics. The first volume in a planned three-part series, this book looks at Perriand’s early life: her education, her work in(...)
Charlotte Perriand: complete works volume 1,1903-1940
Actions:
Price:
$195.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Charlotte Perriand is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century interior design. Together with her contemporaries and collaborators Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, she created many pieces of furniture we now consider classics. The first volume in a planned three-part series, this book looks at Perriand’s early life: her education, her work in photography, her early interest in pre-fab residential architecture, and her years spent working with Le Corbusier at his studio on the Rue de Sèvres in Paris. While most are familiar with Perriand’s game-changing design work, the book also documents her less widely known involvement with leftist groups and her desire for social change that drove her to create affordable and appealing furniture for the masses.
Design Monographs