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Traité des couleurs
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Le monde des couleurs a toujours éveillé la curiosité de l'homme, tant par sa diversité et sa complexité que par son extraordinaire contenu émotionnel. Depuis des siècles, scientifiques et artistes s'interrogent sur la nature des couleurs, des phénomènes qui les créent, et sur les moyens à mettre en oeuvre afin de les mesurer et de les utiliser. A ces innombrables(...)
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January 2003, Lausanne
Traité des couleurs
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Le monde des couleurs a toujours éveillé la curiosité de l'homme, tant par sa diversité et sa complexité que par son extraordinaire contenu émotionnel. Depuis des siècles, scientifiques et artistes s'interrogent sur la nature des couleurs, des phénomènes qui les créent, et sur les moyens à mettre en oeuvre afin de les mesurer et de les utiliser. A ces innombrables énigmes, l'homme s'est efforcé de chercher des réponses, tant dans la science et les expériences de la vie courante, que dans l'art ou la philosophie. Du formidable éparpillement de connaissances résultant de cette quête est née l'idée de ce Traité des Couleurs. Il offre à la curiosité du lecteur une vision synthétique des phénomènes des couleurs, allant des théories d'Aristote aux récents développements en optique ou en physiologie, et des pratiques artisanales les plus anciennes aux toutes dernières modélisations mathématiques. Une formulation plus précise de la double nature de la lumière, de ses interactions avec la matière ainsi que des nombres, symboles et théories la régissant, est proposée dans la 2e partie de l'ouvrage afin d'offrir une compréhension aussi complète que possible du sujet.
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January 2003, Lausanne
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Designing Modern Britain
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Designing Modern Britain demonstrates how interior design, ceramics, textiles, and furniture craft of the twentieth century contain numerous hallmark examples of British design. The book explores topics connected to the British design aesthetic, including the spread of international modernism, the eco-conscious designs of the 1980s and 1990s, and the influence of(...)
Designing Modern Britain
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Designing Modern Britain demonstrates how interior design, ceramics, textiles, and furniture craft of the twentieth century contain numerous hallmark examples of British design. The book explores topics connected to the British design aesthetic, including the spread of international modernism, the eco-conscious designs of the 1980s and 1990s, and the influence of celebrity product designers and their labels. Buckley also investigates popular nostalgia in recent times, considering how museum and gallery exhibitions have been instrumental in reimagining Britain’s past and how the heritage industry has fueled a growing trend among designers of employing images of British culture in their work. A thoughtful look at the aesthetic heritage of a nation that has left its footprint around the globe, Designing Modern Britain will be a valuable text for students and professionals in design.
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"Seventy-nine short essays on design" brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches(...)
Seventy-nine short essays on design
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"Seventy-nine short essays on design" brings together the best of designer Michael Bierut's critical writing—serious or humorous, flattering or biting, but always on the mark. Bierut is widely considered the finest observer on design writing today. Covering topics as diverse as Twyla Tharp and ITC Garamond, Bierut's texts pull design culture into crisp focus. He touches on classics, like Massimo Vignelli and the cover of The Catcher in the Rye, as well as newcomers, like McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and color-coded terrorism alert levels. Along the way Nabakov's Pale Fire; Eero Saarinen; the paper clip; Celebration, Florida; the planet Saturn; the ClearRx pill bottle; and paper architecture all fall under his pen. His experience as a design practitioner informs his writing and gives it truth. In "Seventy-nine short essays on design", designers and nondesigners alike can share and revel in his insights.
Interior Design
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Cet ouvrage explore toutes les utilisations classiques et originales de ce motif, à partir d'exemples tirés de domaines divers tels que le graphisme, la décoration d'intérieur (papier peint et tissu d’ameublement), la mode (les fameuses rayures marines), le design (les célèbres colonnes du club de l’Haçienda inventées par Ben Kelly en Grande-Bretagne) ou encore(...)
Les rayures : communication et motifs
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Cet ouvrage explore toutes les utilisations classiques et originales de ce motif, à partir d'exemples tirés de domaines divers tels que le graphisme, la décoration d'intérieur (papier peint et tissu d’ameublement), la mode (les fameuses rayures marines), le design (les célèbres colonnes du club de l’Haçienda inventées par Ben Kelly en Grande-Bretagne) ou encore l'architecture. Panneaux de signalisation, drapeaux, paysages naturels, logo de marque de sport, packaging, etc. Les rayures font partie de notre quotidien sans que nous y prêtions réellement attention. Relayé par une iconographie riche et détaillée, ce livre propose de faire une synthèse limpide et pertinente qui permettra au lecteur de poser un regard différent sur cet élément a priori familier et d’apprendre à élaborer une combinaison graphique équilibrée et captivante.
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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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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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