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The Soft Chair. The Cloud Lamp. The Stack of Drawers. These are among the award-winning icons of Swiss furniture design created by Susi and Ueli Berger, whose credo has long been that ''only a new idea justifies a new piece of furniture.'' Guided by this view, their work is inventive and playfully provocative, straddling product design and object art.
Susi and Ueli Berger: furniture in dialogue
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The Soft Chair. The Cloud Lamp. The Stack of Drawers. These are among the award-winning icons of Swiss furniture design created by Susi and Ueli Berger, whose credo has long been that ''only a new idea justifies a new piece of furniture.'' Guided by this view, their work is inventive and playfully provocative, straddling product design and object art.
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What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States(...)
John Vassos: industrial design for modern life
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What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His career spans the evolution of central forms of mass media in the twentieth century and offers a template for understanding their success. This is Vassos’s legacy—shaping the way we interact with our media technologies. Other industrial designers may be more celebrated, but none were more focused on making radio and television attractive and accessible to millions of Americans.
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Josef Frank: against design / The architect's anti-formalist oeuvre / Das anti-formalistische werk
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With Josef Frank (1885–1967), the catalogue for the exhibition in the MAK, Vienna, focuses on one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century. In addition to his groundbreaking architectural oeuvre, the discussion considers Frank as an extremely productive designer who, although sceptical and a prominent cultural critic, must be thanked for his many(...)
Josef Frank: against design / The architect's anti-formalist oeuvre / Das anti-formalistische werk
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With Josef Frank (1885–1967), the catalogue for the exhibition in the MAK, Vienna, focuses on one of the most important Austrian architects of the 20th century. In addition to his groundbreaking architectural oeuvre, the discussion considers Frank as an extremely productive designer who, although sceptical and a prominent cultural critic, must be thanked for his many important stimuli to international design that are still valid today. As an architect and designer who is still "contemporary" to this day, Frank was known for his pragmatic design approach, and pleaded for "normal" – but not at all normative – architecture and design. For Frank, the qualities of social experience were more important than formal aspects; his interiors and utilitarian articles were primarily intended to serve the comfort of the user. Josef Frank’s ideas of an uncontrived and unpretentious utilitarian expedience, which was focused on an independent, free, enlightened housing and living culture beyond all stylistic dogmas and fashionable conventions, is more topical today than ever.
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Julien Hébert, pionnier dans l’émergence du design au Québec, a marqué les domaines du mobilier, de l’aménagement de l’espace, du design d’exposition, du graphisme, et a été le mentor de nombreux designers, dont Michel Dallaire. Nombre de ses œuvres sont célèbres, et certaines sont des jalons marquants de l’espace public : logo d’Expo 67, plafond du Centre national des(...)
Julien Hébert : fondateur du design moderne au Québec
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Julien Hébert, pionnier dans l’émergence du design au Québec, a marqué les domaines du mobilier, de l’aménagement de l’espace, du design d’exposition, du graphisme, et a été le mentor de nombreux designers, dont Michel Dallaire. Nombre de ses œuvres sont célèbres, et certaines sont des jalons marquants de l’espace public : logo d’Expo 67, plafond du Centre national des arts à Ottawa, mobilier et espace du Canada à Expo 67, murales du métro Place-Saint-Henri et de la salle Wilfrid-Pelletier... Cet ouvrage exhaustif retrace la carrière du « père du design québécois », tout en abordant les retombées contemporaines liées à son œuvre. Il est enrichi de nombreuses photographies, d’illustrations, de dessins et de documents d’archives. Sous la plume de Martin Racine, c’est toute une époque, marquée par les débuts du design et de la quête du bel objet au Québec, qui prend vie.
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EOOS takes forty kitchen utensils and uses them to reconfigure the entire world of the kitchen. Away from the well-trodden path of design theory and design history - with all its stylistic histories and theories borrowed from sociology and ethnography - EOOS deploys Poetical Analysis to describe the creative process of design and usage of objects. This design philosophy(...)
juillet 2008, New York
EOOS The Cooked Kitchen a poetical analysis
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EOOS takes forty kitchen utensils and uses them to reconfigure the entire world of the kitchen. Away from the well-trodden path of design theory and design history - with all its stylistic histories and theories borrowed from sociology and ethnography - EOOS deploys Poetical Analysis to describe the creative process of design and usage of objects. This design philosophy seeks out intuitive images, rituals and myths serving as a point of departure for the creative process. Ancient myths meet with today's high tech. EOOS is able to do justice to the complex background of theory and practice.
Design detective
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Autour de dix thèmes et projets, le designer Suisse Frédéric Dedelley illustre le cheminement d'une image, depuis sa découverte dans la vie de tous les jours jusqu'à sa matérialisation en un nouvel objet, en passant par son archivage et sa transformation. Cet ouvrage montre ce qui constitue l'essence de la création : observer, remarquer. Il nous apprend à voir d'autres(...)
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juillet 2008, Baden
Design detective
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Autour de dix thèmes et projets, le designer Suisse Frédéric Dedelley illustre le cheminement d'une image, depuis sa découverte dans la vie de tous les jours jusqu'à sa matérialisation en un nouvel objet, en passant par son archivage et sa transformation. Cet ouvrage montre ce qui constitue l'essence de la création : observer, remarquer. Il nous apprend à voir d'autres images que celles montrées par les médias et nous incite à constituer une photothèque qui servira de point de départ pour nos projets personnels. Source d'inspiration et guide pour les designers, ce livre permet de jeter un regard sur la manière de travailler d'un professionnel chevronné. Un texte de la journaliste et designer Ariana Pradal et un index fourni nous en disent un peu plus sur le designer célèbre qu'est Frédéric Dedelley.
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Patricia Urquiola
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The concept of the Spanish-Milanese designer, which has guided her throughout her carreer, was curiosity. The object should create the desire to touch and not just to look at it. She finds her inspirations in the world around her, in art, travel and fashion. Urquiola also pays great attention to craftsmanship. She uses new, unusal materials and blends them into sculptural(...)
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juin 2008, Cologne, London, New York
Patricia Urquiola
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The concept of the Spanish-Milanese designer, which has guided her throughout her carreer, was curiosity. The object should create the desire to touch and not just to look at it. She finds her inspirations in the world around her, in art, travel and fashion. Urquiola also pays great attention to craftsmanship. She uses new, unusal materials and blends them into sculptural curves, concave and convex surfaces to create user-friendly products. This monograph presents her outstanding work in various fields of design. An index with contact and project information is enclosed.
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juin 2008, Cologne, London, New York
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Piero Lissoni
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This series presents international architects and designer in monographies. Pierro Lissoni is one of Italy's most successful Designers, leading a company in Milan with over 50 Architects and Designers. So far he is known more for his furniture design rather than his architecture. He is often thought of as a minimalist, but in reality, Piero Lissoni's aim is to create a(...)
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septembre 2007, Cologne, London, New York
Piero Lissoni
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This series presents international architects and designer in monographies. Pierro Lissoni is one of Italy's most successful Designers, leading a company in Milan with over 50 Architects and Designers. So far he is known more for his furniture design rather than his architecture. He is often thought of as a minimalist, but in reality, Piero Lissoni's aim is to create a complementary cohabitation of different styles. His highest goal is simplicity: as way of thinking, as an attitude, simplicity holds a great inner complexity. For Piero Lissoni it is always imperative to scale down and get to the bottom of things. Among his customers are renown companies such as Boffi and Matteograssi. The book introduces to a selection of his outstanding projects all around the world. Text in english, german, french, spanish and italian.
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Function Rules
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This book is about adapting the world of things to the world of people. It is also the first study of successful swedish design and development firm ergonomidesign. Featuring essays, interviews and case sudies. This beautifully illustrated volume puts ergonomidesign's achievements in a societal context that goes way beyond bad backs and ugly office chairs.
Function Rules
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This book is about adapting the world of things to the world of people. It is also the first study of successful swedish design and development firm ergonomidesign. Featuring essays, interviews and case sudies. This beautifully illustrated volume puts ergonomidesign's achievements in a societal context that goes way beyond bad backs and ugly office chairs.
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janvier 2006, Stockholm
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This richly illustrated volume chronicles Taeuber-Arp’s multifaceted career—with an emphasis on her design and architectural oeuvre. Featuring rarely seen architectural drawings and furniture designs, it traces the artist’s life from her beginnings as a dance student of Rudolf von Laban and her involvement in the Dada movement in Zurich to her marriage to French sculptor(...)
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: designer, dancer, architect
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This richly illustrated volume chronicles Taeuber-Arp’s multifaceted career—with an emphasis on her design and architectural oeuvre. Featuring rarely seen architectural drawings and furniture designs, it traces the artist’s life from her beginnings as a dance student of Rudolf von Laban and her involvement in the Dada movement in Zurich to her marriage to French sculptor Jean Arp and her subsequent association with the Swiss Werkbund, to her eventual flight from the Nazis in France and return to Switzerland. Essays by prominent curators and art historians place Taeuber-Arp’s career in context, making this the definitive book on an extraordinary modernist figure.
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