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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
Interior Design
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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(...)
Interior Design
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.
Interior Design
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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.
Interior Design
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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
Interior Design
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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
Interior Design
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An in-depth look at urban housing in Great Britain from 1774 to 1914, with information for the planning, repair, and restoration of period houses.
Interior Design
March 1996, London
The period house : style, detail & decoration 1774 to 1914
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An in-depth look at urban housing in Great Britain from 1774 to 1914, with information for the planning, repair, and restoration of period houses.
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March 1996, London
Interior Design
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A journey through American art deco : architecture, design, and cinema in the twenties and thirties
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This volume, with photographs by Frederico Zignami, explores art deco architecture and architectural decoration with emphasis on New York and Los Angeles, but also encompassing Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Boulder, Seattle, and Miami Beach.
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January 1900, Seattle
A journey through American art deco : architecture, design, and cinema in the twenties and thirties
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This volume, with photographs by Frederico Zignami, explores art deco architecture and architectural decoration with emphasis on New York and Los Angeles, but also encompassing Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Boulder, Seattle, and Miami Beach.
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January 1900, Seattle
Interior Design
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Coinciding with the launch of a traveling exhibition scheduled to tour the United States through the year 2000, "Work, Life, Tools" examines the tools people use in their everyday lives. Developed by Steelcase Design Partnership and designed by Milton Glaser, this overview of late 20th-century American work and culture serves as a time capsule for(...)
Work, life, tools : the things we use to do the things we do
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Coinciding with the launch of a traveling exhibition scheduled to tour the United States through the year 2000, "Work, Life, Tools" examines the tools people use in their everyday lives. Developed by Steelcase Design Partnership and designed by Milton Glaser, this overview of late 20th-century American work and culture serves as a time capsule for generations to come.
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October 1997, New York
Interior Design