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This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalize objects. Heskett also reveals how simple objects, such as a toothpick, can have their design modified to suit the specific cultural behaviour in different countries. There are also fascinating insights into how major companies such as Nokia,(...)
Toothpicks & logos : design in everyday life
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This concise guide to contemporary design goes beyond style and taste to look at how different cultures and individuals personalize objects. Heskett also reveals how simple objects, such as a toothpick, can have their design modified to suit the specific cultural behaviour in different countries. There are also fascinating insights into how major companies such as Nokia, Ford, and Sony approach design. Finally, we are shown an exciting vision of what design can offer us in the future and especially its role in humanising new technology.
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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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"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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1000 Chairs
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More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to(...)
1000 Chairs
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More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant-garde armchairs. The book, a slightly abbreviated version of our classic title "1000 Chairs", devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its own as pure form, with biographical and historical information about the chairs and their designers. A special treat for anyone who loves design and a must for collectors!
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Ce livre retrace l'histoire des arts décoratifs de 1770 à 1792. Inspirés de l'art antique (romain, grec et égyptien), ils expriment la recherche d'un beau idéal.
Les styles transition et Louis XVI
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Ce livre retrace l'histoire des arts décoratifs de 1770 à 1792. Inspirés de l'art antique (romain, grec et égyptien), ils expriment la recherche d'un beau idéal.
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January 1900, Paris
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Caoutchouc
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Ce livre rend hommage à cette matière surprenante et malléable qui, depuis ses premières utilisations par les Mayas à ses applications les plus récentes, révolutionne notre quotidien.
Caoutchouc
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Ce livre rend hommage à cette matière surprenante et malléable qui, depuis ses premières utilisations par les Mayas à ses applications les plus récentes, révolutionne notre quotidien.
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February 2005, Paris
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1000 lights : 1879 to 1959
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This two-volume edition contains a selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light bulb 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 will be represented: Arts & Crafts,(...)
1000 lights : 1879 to 1959
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This two-volume edition contains a selection of over 1200 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are history’s most interesting electric lights, from Edison's first light bulb 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 will be represented: Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Post-Modern and Contemporary.
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February 2005, Köln
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Né au début du XIXe siècle, en Europe, au sein des mouvements avant-gardistes qui souhaitaient mettre les valeurs de l'art à la portée de tous, le design se situe au croisement de l'art et de l'industrie, du beau et de l'utile, de la forme et de la fonction. Destiné au grand public comme aux amateurs d'art moderne et contemporain, cet ouvrage dresse, de 1851 au début du(...)
Le design : histoire, principaux courants, grandes figures
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Né au début du XIXe siècle, en Europe, au sein des mouvements avant-gardistes qui souhaitaient mettre les valeurs de l'art à la portée de tous, le design se situe au croisement de l'art et de l'industrie, du beau et de l'utile, de la forme et de la fonction. Destiné au grand public comme aux amateurs d'art moderne et contemporain, cet ouvrage dresse, de 1851 au début du XXIe siècle, un panorama international et historique du design.
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October 2004, Paris
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