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Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created(...)
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Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created(...)
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The momentous, uneventful day: A requiem for the office
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Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created electronically. At length, they returned to something approaching normality. Or had they glimpsed the normal to come? In''The momentous, uneventful day,'' Gideon Haigh reflects on our ambivalent relationship to office work and office life, how we ended up with the offices we have, how they have reflected our best and worst instincts, and how these might be affected by a world in a time of contagion. Like the factory in the nineteenth century, the office was the characteristic building form of the twentieth, reshaping our cities, redirecting our lives. We all have a stake in how it will change in the twenty-first. Enlivened by copious citations from literature, film, memoir, and corporate history, and interspersed with relevant images,''The momentous, uneventful day'' is the ideal companion for a lively current debate about the role offices will play in the future.
The momentous, uneventful day: A requiem for the office
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Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to their homes, they met, mingled, collaborated, and created electronically. At length, they returned to something approaching normality. Or had they glimpsed the normal to come? In''The momentous, uneventful day,'' Gideon Haigh reflects on our ambivalent relationship to office work and office life, how we ended up with the offices we have, how they have reflected our best and worst instincts, and how these might be affected by a world in a time of contagion. Like the factory in the nineteenth century, the office was the characteristic building form of the twentieth, reshaping our cities, redirecting our lives. We all have a stake in how it will change in the twenty-first. Enlivened by copious citations from literature, film, memoir, and corporate history, and interspersed with relevant images,''The momentous, uneventful day'' is the ideal companion for a lively current debate about the role offices will play in the future.
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The palliative society
The palliative society
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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a(...)
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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a(...)
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The palliative society
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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is incapable of implementing radical reforms that might be painful, so all we get is more of the same. Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the palliative society is transformed into a society of survival. The virus enters the palliative zone of well-being and turns it into a quarantine zone in which life is increasingly focused on survival. And the more life becomes survival, the greater the fear of death: the pandemic makes death, which we had carefully repressed and set aside, visible again. Everywhere, the prolongation of life at any cost is the preeminent value, and we are prepared to sacrifice everything that makes life worth living for the sake of survival. This trenchant analysis of our contemporary societies by one of the most original cultural critics of our time will appeal to a wide readership.
The palliative society
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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is incapable of implementing radical reforms that might be painful, so all we get is more of the same. Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the palliative society is transformed into a society of survival. The virus enters the palliative zone of well-being and turns it into a quarantine zone in which life is increasingly focused on survival. And the more life becomes survival, the greater the fear of death: the pandemic makes death, which we had carefully repressed and set aside, visible again. Everywhere, the prolongation of life at any cost is the preeminent value, and we are prepared to sacrifice everything that makes life worth living for the sake of survival. This trenchant analysis of our contemporary societies by one of the most original cultural critics of our time will appeal to a wide readership.
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September 2021
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By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of(...)
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By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of(...)
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Platform urbanism and its discontents
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By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life – from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems.
Platform urbanism and its discontents
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By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating the way we live in cities. Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life – from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises in the next few years. These multi-scalar changes raise significant questions about the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems.
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September 2021
September 2021
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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German designer Matthias Sauerbruch (born 1955) and British designer Louisa Hutton (born 1957) have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and circulation of European architecture over the past 30 years. While the essays collected in this volume include observations of Sauerbruch Hutton’s(...)
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German designer Matthias Sauerbruch (born 1955) and British designer Louisa Hutton (born 1957) have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and circulation of European architecture over the past 30 years. While the essays collected in this volume include observations of Sauerbruch Hutton’s(...)
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The turn of the century: A reader about architecture within Europe 1990-2020
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German designer Matthias Sauerbruch (born 1955) and British designer Louisa Hutton (born 1957) have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and circulation of European architecture over the past 30 years. While the essays collected in this volume include observations of Sauerbruch Hutton’s buildings, the scope of the authors’ conclusions about European design trends far exceeds the work of this particular agency. The text is supplemented by a photographic essay by Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen, offering readers an immersive experience of the firm’s most impressive accomplishments.
The turn of the century: A reader about architecture within Europe 1990-2020
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German designer Matthias Sauerbruch (born 1955) and British designer Louisa Hutton (born 1957) have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and circulation of European architecture over the past 30 years. While the essays collected in this volume include observations of Sauerbruch Hutton’s buildings, the scope of the authors’ conclusions about European design trends far exceeds the work of this particular agency. The text is supplemented by a photographic essay by Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen, offering readers an immersive experience of the firm’s most impressive accomplishments.
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November 2021
November 2021
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism(...)
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism(...)
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CriticAll!: (Un)professional everyday design criticism
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism as well. How can we activate more people to become actively aware of and critical towards their designed environments?
CriticAll!: (Un)professional everyday design criticism
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism as well. How can we activate more people to become actively aware of and critical towards their designed environments?
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September 2021
September 2021
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Design Theory
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What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and non-fiction, graphic stories, illustrations, and interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and(...)
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What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and non-fiction, graphic stories, illustrations, and interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and(...)
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Architectural Theory
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August 2021
August 2021
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Concrete and ink: Storytelling and the future of architecture
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What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and non-fiction, graphic stories, illustrations, and interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and dystopias, through imagination, dreaming, magic, games and concrete realities, across past and present, and into the future.
Concrete and ink: Storytelling and the future of architecture
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What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings together commissioned writing in fiction and non-fiction, graphic stories, illustrations, and interviews, narrating buildings, housing estates, and cities, between utopias and dystopias, through imagination, dreaming, magic, games and concrete realities, across past and present, and into the future.
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August 2021
August 2021
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Architectural Theory
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Voisins animaux
Voisins animaux
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste(...)
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste(...)
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Voisins animaux
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste amateur. L'ermite de Walden consigne ensuite avec précision des notes dans son Journal, nourries de réflexions et parfois d'humour, qui laissent entrevoir un autre mode de vie considérant pleinement la nature. Dans l'idée de présenter un panorama permettant d'appréhender l'animalité, Michel Granger a opéré une sélection qui souligne toute la richesse et la diversité de cette pensée profondément libre.
Voisins animaux
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Tout au long de sa vie, Henry D. Thoreau a porté un vif intérêt pour le règne animal. Préférant la compagnie de ceux qu'il nomme ses "voisins", ses "co-habitants" voire ses "amis" à celle de ses concitoyens, il consacre un temps infini à leur observation sur le terrain. Abeille, lynx du Canada, moufette, petit-duc maculé, tortue... n'ont plus de secret pour le naturaliste amateur. L'ermite de Walden consigne ensuite avec précision des notes dans son Journal, nourries de réflexions et parfois d'humour, qui laissent entrevoir un autre mode de vie considérant pleinement la nature. Dans l'idée de présenter un panorama permettant d'appréhender l'animalité, Michel Granger a opéré une sélection qui souligne toute la richesse et la diversité de cette pensée profondément libre.
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October 2020
October 2020
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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Oh, to be a painter!
Oh, to be a painter!
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Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This volume collects her longest essay on painting, “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), alongside shorter essays and reviews, including “Pictures and Portraits” (1920) and(...)
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Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This volume collects her longest essay on painting, “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), alongside shorter essays and reviews, including “Pictures and Portraits” (1920) and(...)
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Oh, to be a painter!
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Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This volume collects her longest essay on painting, “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), alongside shorter essays and reviews, including “Pictures and Portraits” (1920) and “Pictures” (1925).
Oh, to be a painter!
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Despite wide interest in Woolf’s writings, and in the artists and art critics in her Bloomsbury circle, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This volume collects her longest essay on painting, “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), alongside shorter essays and reviews, including “Pictures and Portraits” (1920) and “Pictures” (1925).
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November 2021
November 2021
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Art Theory
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Inclusions
Inclusions
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À l'heure de l'Anthropocène, quel pourrait être le rôle de l'art? Dans une culture qui a accéléré jusqu'au délire le passage de la marchandise à l'ordure, de la valeur au déchet, il n'est désormais rien qui ne puisse prétendre s'extraire de la logique de crise affectant la totalité des habitants de la planète Terre. À la crise climatique et à la crise économique répond en(...)
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À l'heure de l'Anthropocène, quel pourrait être le rôle de l'art? Dans une culture qui a accéléré jusqu'au délire le passage de la marchandise à l'ordure, de la valeur au déchet, il n'est désormais rien qui ne puisse prétendre s'extraire de la logique de crise affectant la totalité des habitants de la planète Terre. À la crise climatique et à la crise économique répond en(...)
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Inclusions
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À l'heure de l'Anthropocène, quel pourrait être le rôle de l'art? Dans une culture qui a accéléré jusqu'au délire le passage de la marchandise à l'ordure, de la valeur au déchet, il n'est désormais rien qui ne puisse prétendre s'extraire de la logique de crise affectant la totalité des habitants de la planète Terre. À la crise climatique et à la crise économique répond en effet une crise de la culture, mêlant gaspillages, exclusions, pollutions, appropriations brutales - faisant de l'art le collaborateur de la destruction planétaire. Comment réagir à cet état des choses? Dans ce nouvel essai, urgent et passionné, Nicolas Bourriaud se fait l'avocat d'une conception nouvelle de l'art, qui prenne la mesure d'une écologie et d'une économie instituant la décroissance, la décolonisation et l'inclusion en maîtres-mots. Convoquant les plus grands créateurs de notre temps ainsi que les derniers apports de l'anthropologie, de la philosophie ou de l'esthétique, Inclusions est un vibrant plaidoyer pour une forme enfin soutenable de vie, dont l'art pourrait constituer le modèle.
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À l'heure de l'Anthropocène, quel pourrait être le rôle de l'art? Dans une culture qui a accéléré jusqu'au délire le passage de la marchandise à l'ordure, de la valeur au déchet, il n'est désormais rien qui ne puisse prétendre s'extraire de la logique de crise affectant la totalité des habitants de la planète Terre. À la crise climatique et à la crise économique répond en effet une crise de la culture, mêlant gaspillages, exclusions, pollutions, appropriations brutales - faisant de l'art le collaborateur de la destruction planétaire. Comment réagir à cet état des choses? Dans ce nouvel essai, urgent et passionné, Nicolas Bourriaud se fait l'avocat d'une conception nouvelle de l'art, qui prenne la mesure d'une écologie et d'une économie instituant la décroissance, la décolonisation et l'inclusion en maîtres-mots. Convoquant les plus grands créateurs de notre temps ainsi que les derniers apports de l'anthropologie, de la philosophie ou de l'esthétique, Inclusions est un vibrant plaidoyer pour une forme enfin soutenable de vie, dont l'art pourrait constituer le modèle.
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April 2021
April 2021
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Du tissage
Du tissage
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Rédigé par l'une des pionnières de l'art textile au XXe siècle, cet ouvrage illustré offre une brillante méditation sur l'art du tissage, son histoire, ses outils et ses techniques, et sur ses conséquences pour le design moderne (nouvelle édition augmentée, avec trois textes critiques et des illustrations en couleur).
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Rédigé par l'une des pionnières de l'art textile au XXe siècle, cet ouvrage illustré offre une brillante méditation sur l'art du tissage, son histoire, ses outils et ses techniques, et sur ses conséquences pour le design moderne (nouvelle édition augmentée, avec trois textes critiques et des illustrations en couleur).
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Du tissage
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Rédigé par l'une des pionnières de l'art textile au XXe siècle, cet ouvrage illustré offre une brillante méditation sur l'art du tissage, son histoire, ses outils et ses techniques, et sur ses conséquences pour le design moderne (nouvelle édition augmentée, avec trois textes critiques et des illustrations en couleur).
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Rédigé par l'une des pionnières de l'art textile au XXe siècle, cet ouvrage illustré offre une brillante méditation sur l'art du tissage, son histoire, ses outils et ses techniques, et sur ses conséquences pour le design moderne (nouvelle édition augmentée, avec trois textes critiques et des illustrations en couleur).
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September 2021
September 2021
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