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Né en 1938, Andrea Branzi vit et travaille à Milan. Acteur du mouvement radical italien, du groupe Alchimia puis de Memphis, il a œuvré à libérer le design de la tyrannie de l'objet industriel et du standard, pour le doter de pouvoirs de résonance et d'évocation. Il ouvre ainsi la voie vers la multiplicité des formes que revêt aujourd'hui le design. La ville est son champ(...)
Andrea Branzi: objets et territoires
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Né en 1938, Andrea Branzi vit et travaille à Milan. Acteur du mouvement radical italien, du groupe Alchimia puis de Memphis, il a œuvré à libérer le design de la tyrannie de l'objet industriel et du standard, pour le doter de pouvoirs de résonance et d'évocation. Il ouvre ainsi la voie vers la multiplicité des formes que revêt aujourd'hui le design. La ville est son champ d'observation privilégié et l'humain, sa première préoccupation. Un parcours forte et singulier, au cœur de l'histoire du design des XXe et XXIe siècles. Ses œuvres sont collectionnées dans les musées du monde entier.
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An extensive illustrated survey of one of the most inventive design minds of the twentieth century. Combining whimsy and elegance, Piero Fornasetti transformed everyday objects like cups, scarves, and plates into much sought-after works of art with his idiosyncratic motifs, such as the hand, the female face, and luminescent fish. His dazzling pieces of trompe l’oeil(...)
Piero Fornasetti: practical madness
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An extensive illustrated survey of one of the most inventive design minds of the twentieth century. Combining whimsy and elegance, Piero Fornasetti transformed everyday objects like cups, scarves, and plates into much sought-after works of art with his idiosyncratic motifs, such as the hand, the female face, and luminescent fish. His dazzling pieces of trompe l’oeil furniture, created in collaboration with Gio Ponti, are also highly prized by collectors worldwide. Fornasetti’s boundless imagination is celebrated here in a book published to document a major retrospective exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The first half of the monograph is organized by type and includes Fornasetti’s paintings, drawings, and furniture. The second half focuses on favorite themes: his use of trompe l’oeil, architectural drawings, and his variations on the face of a famous operatic beauty.
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Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the(...)
Ettore Sottsass and the poetry of things
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Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and lighting that continue to inspire design minds today with their flamboyance and use of color.
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Richard Neutra: Furniture
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Best known for his light-flooded houses, Austrian-American architect Richard J. Neutra (1892-1970) shaped the scene of California Modernism. From there he rose to become one of the most influential names in the history of modern architecture, but in contrast to his peers--like the great Aalto, Breuer, Jacobsen and Prouvé--Neutra's work on furniture designs has long been(...)
Richard Neutra: Furniture
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Best known for his light-flooded houses, Austrian-American architect Richard J. Neutra (1892-1970) shaped the scene of California Modernism. From there he rose to become one of the most influential names in the history of modern architecture, but in contrast to his peers--like the great Aalto, Breuer, Jacobsen and Prouvé--Neutra's work on furniture designs has long been undiscovered. Modern building historian and Neutra specialist Barbara Lamprecht fills this gap with Richard Neutra: Furniture. Referring to the original sketches and patent drawings, Lamprecht focuses on the details of the furniture designs, relating this element of the architect's work to his overarching desire to create balanced environments for his clients, each element-furniture, lighting, nature and landscape, and building-working together to create a "soul anchorage," as Neutra put it.
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A book of things
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Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style. His signature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us. His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity, as well as a sense of poetry and humor. Morrison works on a global scale and is one of the most influential product designers in(...)
A book of things
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Jasper Morrison has the ability to bestow things with a distinctive style. His signature style is evident in many of the everyday objects that surround us. His repertoire of essential designs is characterized by simplicity yet complexity, as well as a sense of poetry and humor. Morrison works on a global scale and is one of the most influential product designers in the world today. A Book of Things is a collection of products and projects across the broad spectrum of his activities and demonstrates the continuity of his interests and methods, which he describes in succinct texts.
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Ex-formation
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For Kenya Hara, design begins with comprehension of the unknown. In contrast to "information," "exformation" describes how little we really know and thus becomes the starting point for any type of design. Based on a range of projects the book describes what "exformation" can look like in design practice and how this concept alters our classic understanding of(...)
Ex-formation
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For Kenya Hara, design begins with comprehension of the unknown. In contrast to "information," "exformation" describes how little we really know and thus becomes the starting point for any type of design. Based on a range of projects the book describes what "exformation" can look like in design practice and how this concept alters our classic understanding of information design. Following the path embarked on in Designing Design (2007) and its successor, White (2010), Ex-formation continues to explore the void, absence, and indeterminacy in contemporary design.
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This comprehensive book examines the work of celebrated modernist industrial designer Peter Muller-Munk, an international leader in his field during the mid-twentieth century. This groundbreaking book situates Peter Muller-Munk (1904-1967), a German émigré to the U.S., among the most influential designers of his generation. It presents the untold story of a man who rose(...)
Silver to steel: the modern designs of Peter Muller-Munk
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This comprehensive book examines the work of celebrated modernist industrial designer Peter Muller-Munk, an international leader in his field during the mid-twentieth century. This groundbreaking book situates Peter Muller-Munk (1904-1967), a German émigré to the U.S., among the most influential designers of his generation. It presents the untold story of a man who rose from anonymity as a young silversmith at Tiffany & Co. to become a crucial postwar designer
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Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials. Her Bibendum chair and E-1027 table today are familiar icons across the world; the(...)
Eileen Gray:her life and work
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Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials. Her Bibendum chair and E-1027 table today are familiar icons across the world; the ship-shaped home she designed and built on a cliff near Monaco was hailed as a triumph of deluxe modern living; her Dragon chair fetched $28 million at a YSL sale. Her flamboyant beauty captured by photographer Berenice Abbott made her an admired figure among American expatriates such as Gertrude Stein and William Somerset Maugham. Her archives bombed during World War II, she was largely forgotten when one-time peers like Le Corbusier were lionized as visionaries. Rediscovered in 1960, she is today a celebrated pioneer of modern design.
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Mödel
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Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi founded Kuehn Malvezzi in Berlin in 2001. Their design and curatorial practice focuses on public spaces and exhibitions. In addition to a number of projects related to the display of museum collections, their work includes the architectural design for documenta 11 and the Flick Collection in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Their recent(...)
Mödel
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Johannes Kuehn and Simona Malvezzi founded Kuehn Malvezzi in Berlin in 2001. Their design and curatorial practice focuses on public spaces and exhibitions. In addition to a number of projects related to the display of museum collections, their work includes the architectural design for documenta 11 and the Flick Collection in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Their recent work includes a winning proposal for the Insectarium in Montreal. This is a publication about some of their architectural objects.
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Produced in close collaboration with Eames estate, this publication presents the husband-and-wife team from both personal and professional perspectives, as well as the lively interplay of their public and private lives. This monograph charts the history of their inspiring and prolific world and brings together key works and ideas explored at the Eames Office throughout(...)
The world of Charles and Ray Eames
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Produced in close collaboration with Eames estate, this publication presents the husband-and-wife team from both personal and professional perspectives, as well as the lively interplay of their public and private lives. This monograph charts the history of their inspiring and prolific world and brings together key works and ideas explored at the Eames Office throughout its extraordinary history. Published in connection to a major exhibition developed in partnership with the Eames Estate opening at London's Barbican Art Gallery in October 2015, the book features a broad range of visual material, enriched by recent archival research and new discoveries. It explores the era-defining work of the Eames Office, a 'laboratory' active for over four decades that produced a vast array of pioneering and influential projects - from architecture, furniture and product design to film, photography, multi-media installation and exhibitions, as well as new models for arts education.
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