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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at(...)
Alexander Girard: a designers universe
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Alexander Girard was one of the most important modern textile artists and interior designers of the 20th century. He combined Pop and Folk art influences to create a colorfully opulent aesthetic language whose impact continues to be felt today. This catalogue draws on the vast holdings in Girard's private estate, which were exhaustively investigated for the first time at the Vitra Design Museum. The book presents the oeuvre of the multitalented designer in all its facets, while offering the first scholarly, critical examination of his work.
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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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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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The Domestic Scene reveals Niedecken as a forward-looking designer influenced by European Art Nouveau and Secessionist design as well as by the Arts and Crafts Movement. Cheryl Robertson focuses on three examples of Niedecken’s commissions and an article by Niedecken himself (reprinted in this volume) to explore the evolving relationship between architect, interior(...)
The domestic scene (1897-1927)
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The Domestic Scene reveals Niedecken as a forward-looking designer influenced by European Art Nouveau and Secessionist design as well as by the Arts and Crafts Movement. Cheryl Robertson focuses on three examples of Niedecken’s commissions and an article by Niedecken himself (reprinted in this volume) to explore the evolving relationship between architect, interior designer, and client in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This expanded second edition includes updated photography, additional color images, and an essay by John C. Eastberg that deepens our understanding of Niedecken’s career by presenting his lesser-known work in the context of Milwaukee’s artistic and social history. Niedecken worked also in the Colonial and Renaissance Revival modes, and these works illustrate his versatility as a designer and entrepreneur.
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Due to popular demand, Booth-Clibborn Editions is reprinting Stefan Sagmeister's monograph, extolling his philosophy that graphic design should cut to one’s emotional core. Using playful design innovations, he explores twenty years of irreverent work. Text by Peter Hall.
Sagmeister: Another self indulgent design book
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Due to popular demand, Booth-Clibborn Editions is reprinting Stefan Sagmeister's monograph, extolling his philosophy that graphic design should cut to one’s emotional core. Using playful design innovations, he explores twenty years of irreverent work. Text by Peter Hall.
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Foreign Bodies
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Foreign Bodies aims to extend the definition of body adornment today. In the search for improvement, ultimate functionality, beauty and perfection, the body has become a luxury item. Christoph Zellweger makes hybrid objects, bridging territories between art and design.
décembre 2007, Barcelone
Foreign Bodies
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Foreign Bodies aims to extend the definition of body adornment today. In the search for improvement, ultimate functionality, beauty and perfection, the body has become a luxury item. Christoph Zellweger makes hybrid objects, bridging territories between art and design.
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Eames Design is the first book to present the work of the extraordinary husband and wife team whose creative imprint revolutionized the look of post-war American society. This volume includes over 3500 illustrations of more than 200 of the Eames' projects dating from 1941 to 1978.
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septembre 1989, New York
Eames design : the work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames
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Eames Design is the first book to present the work of the extraordinary husband and wife team whose creative imprint revolutionized the look of post-war American society. This volume includes over 3500 illustrations of more than 200 of the Eames' projects dating from 1941 to 1978.
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septembre 1989, New York
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Eileen Gray
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Petit livre d'introduction à l'oeuvre d'Eileen Gray, abondamment illustré.
Eileen Gray
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Petit livre d'introduction à l'oeuvre d'Eileen Gray, abondamment illustré.
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avril 1998, Paris
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