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Designed to be a companion to the classic title "1000 Chairs", this edition contains a selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All(...)
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September 2006, Cologne
1000 Lights. 1000 Leuchten. 1000 Luminaires
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Designed to be a companion to the classic title "1000 Chairs", this edition contains a selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here - Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern, and Contemporary. / La design des luminaires depuis l'invention de l'ampoule électrique. Découvrez plus de 1000 exemplaires de l'histoire des luminaires les plus intéressants : de la première ampoule d'Edison aux superbes abat-jours en vitrail de Tiffany et aux modèles les plus audacieux de la fin des années 1960 et des années 1970 jusqu'aux dernières créations à base de LEDs. Vous les trouverez dans cet ouvrage, présentés chronologiquement par décennie. Tous les grands styles sont présents dans 704 pages de créations lumineuses.
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Durant l'entre-deux-guerres, l'habitat bruxellois connaît une expansion considérable. Coexistent à cette époque deux grands courants : l'un résolument moderniste et avant-gardiste, dans la mouvance du Stijl et du Bauhaus, et inspiré par des novateurs, tels Walter Gropius ou Le Corbusier ; l'autre, à la fois réaction à l'Art nouveau et son prolongement naturel... qui se(...)
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January 1900, Bruxelles
Intérieurs bruxellois : modernisme & art déco
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Durant l'entre-deux-guerres, l'habitat bruxellois connaît une expansion considérable. Coexistent à cette époque deux grands courants : l'un résolument moderniste et avant-gardiste, dans la mouvance du Stijl et du Bauhaus, et inspiré par des novateurs, tels Walter Gropius ou Le Corbusier ; l'autre, à la fois réaction à l'Art nouveau et son prolongement naturel... qui se verra consacré lors de l'Exposition des Arts décoratifs, en 1925, à Paris. Cette évolution formelle s'appuie sur un progrès technique dans de nombreux domaines et sur la mise en œuvre de matériaux nouveaux, béton armé, brique de verre, acier, aluminium. Dans le même temps, l'habitat lui-même s'enrichit du concept de cité-jardin et voit se multiplier les immeubles d'appartements. Tous ces aspects - conceptuels, formels, stylistiques, techniques, culturels et sociaux - sont illustrés dans le présent ouvrage par des intérieurs choisis pour leur pertinence, tant des hôtels de prestige que des logements plus modestes, tous représentatifs de la façon de vivre et de l'art de construire de cet âge d'or. Illustré, cet ouvrage présente des intérieurs bruxellois typiques de l'entre-deux-guerres et d'aujourd'hui ;et y restitue dans toutes ses composantes le contexte de leur développement.
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999 design classics
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A design classic is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date. The collection presented in these three volumes has been put together by a group of experts following the above criteria. The objects are presented chronologically, beginning with(...)
999 design classics
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A design classic is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date. The collection presented in these three volumes has been put together by a group of experts following the above criteria. The objects are presented chronologically, beginning with an elegant pair of Chinese bonsai scissors from the early 1600s, still in production today, and ending with Jasper Morrison`s recent brunch set, which is destined to become a classic. The book includes not only classic objects created by internationally renowned designers, such as Breuer, Le Corbusier, Dreyfuss, Eames, Yanagi and Castiglioni, to name but a few, but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, the deck chair, the corkscrew and the chopstick, which, in spite of lacking a specific designer, have achieved such perfection in design and functionality that they have eliminated the possibility of improvement. Each product is presented on two, four or six pages and accompanied by a text. The texts provide a historical context, with information about the development of the design, and an explanation as to why that particular design is important. The texts also uncover curious anecdotes about the design, and the process involved in creating it. In many cases the products are described with details that have not been published before, informing the reader about materials and process, in addition to providing insights into each designer's oeuvre.
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February 2006, London, New York
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"The furniture machin" looks at the major trends and designers of this period, including Philippe Starck, Ron Arad and Marc Newson, to unravel the workings of the furniture industry since 1990. Attention is also given to the innovations of Italian manufacturers, such as Cappellini and B Italia, and the increasing influence of conceptual design, from the theoretical(...)
The furniture machine : furniture since 1990
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"The furniture machin" looks at the major trends and designers of this period, including Philippe Starck, Ron Arad and Marc Newson, to unravel the workings of the furniture industry since 1990. Attention is also given to the innovations of Italian manufacturers, such as Cappellini and B Italia, and the increasing influence of conceptual design, from the theoretical proposals of Droog Design to the commercial products of Moooi.
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The A - Z of Modern design
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This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide available to international product design of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes 350 entries on influential designers and studios and the most important design-led manufacturers worldwide, both past and present, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Loewy and Philippe Starck to Apple, Ikea and BMW. The(...)
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October 2006, London
The A - Z of Modern design
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This encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide available to international product design of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It includes 350 entries on influential designers and studios and the most important design-led manufacturers worldwide, both past and present, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Raymond Loewy and Philippe Starck to Apple, Ikea and BMW. The products featured range from classic cars, furniture and ceramics to the latest MP3 players. Each entry includes an informative profile, a biography or company history, a product chronology, and is accompanied by colour photographs.
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Cet ouvrage présente un éventail de pièces de mobilier et de lampes de divers designers, et de diverses marques. Parmi les créateurs exposés, Xavier Lust, David Abad, Guido Rosati, Oscar Tusquets, Alvaro Siza,Ingo Maurer, et d'autres.
Design design : meubles & lampes
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Cet ouvrage présente un éventail de pièces de mobilier et de lampes de divers designers, et de diverses marques. Parmi les créateurs exposés, Xavier Lust, David Abad, Guido Rosati, Oscar Tusquets, Alvaro Siza,Ingo Maurer, et d'autres.
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The Wiener Werkstätte, founded in Vienna in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, became the international trademark for art as well as arts-and-crafts in the twentieth century. The history of the Wiener Werkstätte is told in this volume, which features historic photographs (some of them published for the first time here), documents and original texts selected by(...)
Yearning for beauty : the Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House
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The Wiener Werkstätte, founded in Vienna in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, became the international trademark for art as well as arts-and-crafts in the twentieth century. The history of the Wiener Werkstätte is told in this volume, which features historic photographs (some of them published for the first time here), documents and original texts selected by experts from the MAK (where the Wiener Werkstätte archives have been housed since 1955). Full-page illustrations feature outstanding examples of Wiener Werkstätte objects, covering architecture, furniture, ceramics, glass, books, posters, postcards, carpets, jewelry, fashion and print design. The book also focuses on the innovative "total concept" used by this avant-garde association to establish an early "consumer culture," since the Werkstätte was one of the first organizations to develop a corporate identity that followed a product through every stage from concept and development to marketing.
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The arts and crafts movement
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Dating from the 1850s to the First World War, the Arts and Crafts movement was an international phenomenon of enormous scope and influence. It encompassed everything from architecture to town planning, metalwork and embroidery, in places as diverse as California and Budapest. Born of thinkers and practitioners in Victorian England its ideological currents reflect the(...)
The arts and crafts movement
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Dating from the 1850s to the First World War, the Arts and Crafts movement was an international phenomenon of enormous scope and influence. It encompassed everything from architecture to town planning, metalwork and embroidery, in places as diverse as California and Budapest. Born of thinkers and practitioners in Victorian England its ideological currents reflect the era’s most pressing social, political and artistic concerns. In this book Rosalind Blakesley explores the common ideas that give cohesion to a movement of otherwise bewildering breadth and stylistic heterogeneity. At the origins of the movement was a reaction against industrialization, the long-standing division between traditional crafts and fine art and the over-elaborate ornamentation which disguised an object or building’s true 'function'. Early British Arts and Crafts practitioners campaigned for a revival of old craft techniques, for the elevation of the applied arts and for 'honesty' in design, ideas that were picked up and developed across Europe and the United States, with national variants quickly emerging. Germany, for example, recognized the potential of industrial techniques and experimented with standardization in design; in Finland, then annexed to Russia, Arts and Crafts was allied to the search for self-expression and a national style in art. Examining both acknowledged Arts and Crafts centres and lesser-known communities, Rosalind Blakesley concludes her survey with an evaluation of the Movement’s significance in the twenty-first century.
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October 2006, London
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Ce hors-série de « Beaux Arts Magazine » revient sur le design, son évolution ses principaux acteurs et courants actuels. Au sommaire : une histoire du design en 100 objets, 50 portraits de créateurs, un guide et des textes de référence.
Qu'est-ce que le design ? (aujourd'hui), Beaux-Arts Magazine
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Ce hors-série de « Beaux Arts Magazine » revient sur le design, son évolution ses principaux acteurs et courants actuels. Au sommaire : une histoire du design en 100 objets, 50 portraits de créateurs, un guide et des textes de référence.
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October 2005, Paris
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Parlant du papier peint, un rédacteur du Dictionnaire de l’industrie paru en l’an III (1801) écrivait que “ presque inconnu en 1760, il a fait de tels progrès en vingt années, qu’à peine les manufactures, qui se sont multipliées depuis, suffisent à une mode constante et soutenue ”. On ne saurait mieux dire combien l’usage de ce papier peint s’est rapidement et fortement(...)
Décors de papier : production, commerce et usages des papiers peints à Paris 1750-1820
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Parlant du papier peint, un rédacteur du Dictionnaire de l’industrie paru en l’an III (1801) écrivait que “ presque inconnu en 1760, il a fait de tels progrès en vingt années, qu’à peine les manufactures, qui se sont multipliées depuis, suffisent à une mode constante et soutenue ”. On ne saurait mieux dire combien l’usage de ce papier peint s’est rapidement et fortement imposé dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIème siècle à Paris, en cette époque et ce lieu qui furent alors ceux d’un véritable âge d’or des arts décoratifs. L’ouvrage resitue cette histoire des premiers succès du papier peint, présente le vaste répertoire de motifs dont il s’empare où qu’il fait naître, analyse ses modes de production, son commerce, ses usages.
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