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“Inspiring Designers” a sourcebook provides an insight into the minds of 18 of the world's most distinguished designers working today. The book comprehensively explores what makes these designers critically and commercially successful. Moreover, it poses the question: Do designers possess a special something in their genetic make up - 'cultural DNA' - that makes them(...)
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“Inspiring Designers” a sourcebook provides an insight into the minds of 18 of the world's most distinguished designers working today. The book comprehensively explores what makes these designers critically and commercially successful. Moreover, it poses the question: Do designers possess a special something in their genetic make up - 'cultural DNA' - that makes them(...)
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Inspiring designers : a sourcebook
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“Inspiring Designers” a sourcebook provides an insight into the minds of 18 of the world's most distinguished designers working today. The book comprehensively explores what makes these designers critically and commercially successful. Moreover, it poses the question: Do designers possess a special something in their genetic make up - 'cultural DNA' - that makes them flourish in the contemporary design world? ”Inspiring Designers” presents personal narratives of each designer's cultural development providing a comprehensive overview of the iconic influences used in today's design practice. Each designer has been interviewed about their influences and inspiration sources - buildings, products, films, artists, books, cars, music, magazines, people. As such the book provides a unique and accessible introduction as to how inspiration works within and informs our modern world.
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“Inspiring Designers” a sourcebook provides an insight into the minds of 18 of the world's most distinguished designers working today. The book comprehensively explores what makes these designers critically and commercially successful. Moreover, it poses the question: Do designers possess a special something in their genetic make up - 'cultural DNA' - that makes them flourish in the contemporary design world? ”Inspiring Designers” presents personal narratives of each designer's cultural development providing a comprehensive overview of the iconic influences used in today's design practice. Each designer has been interviewed about their influences and inspiration sources - buildings, products, films, artists, books, cars, music, magazines, people. As such the book provides a unique and accessible introduction as to how inspiration works within and informs our modern world.
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juin 2004, London
juin 2004, London
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Design d’intérieur
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« Déposez votre mobilier cassé à l’hôpital des objets. 5,5 Designers le réaniment avec le Secours Populaire Français. » L’hôpital des objets, grâce aux savoir-faire de médecins-designers, permet d’optimiser l’espérance de vie de meubles abandonnés. L’usure, les altérations des objets récupérés deviennent les matières premières de créations ludiques et décalées. Pour le(...)
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« Déposez votre mobilier cassé à l’hôpital des objets. 5,5 Designers le réaniment avec le Secours Populaire Français. » L’hôpital des objets, grâce aux savoir-faire de médecins-designers, permet d’optimiser l’espérance de vie de meubles abandonnés. L’usure, les altérations des objets récupérés deviennent les matières premières de créations ludiques et décalées. Pour le(...)
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Sauver les meubles : 5.5 designers
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« Déposez votre mobilier cassé à l’hôpital des objets. 5,5 Designers le réaniment avec le Secours Populaire Français. » L’hôpital des objets, grâce aux savoir-faire de médecins-designers, permet d’optimiser l’espérance de vie de meubles abandonnés. L’usure, les altérations des objets récupérés deviennent les matières premières de créations ludiques et décalées. Pour le Secours Populaire Français, à l’initiative du projet, l’accès à la culture et à la création pour les victimes de la pauvreté et de la précarité est une priorité dans la lutte contre l’exclusion.
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« Déposez votre mobilier cassé à l’hôpital des objets. 5,5 Designers le réaniment avec le Secours Populaire Français. » L’hôpital des objets, grâce aux savoir-faire de médecins-designers, permet d’optimiser l’espérance de vie de meubles abandonnés. L’usure, les altérations des objets récupérés deviennent les matières premières de créations ludiques et décalées. Pour le Secours Populaire Français, à l’initiative du projet, l’accès à la culture et à la création pour les victimes de la pauvreté et de la précarité est une priorité dans la lutte contre l’exclusion.
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janvier 1900, Paris
janvier 1900, Paris
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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A comprehensive book on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present featuring work by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Scott Burton, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Tuttle and Isamo Noguchi.
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A comprehensive book on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present featuring work by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Scott Burton, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Tuttle and Isamo Noguchi.
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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novembre 2004, London, New York
novembre 2004, London, New York
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Design is not art : functional objects from Donal Judd to Rachel Whiteread
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A comprehensive book on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present featuring work by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Scott Burton, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Tuttle and Isamo Noguchi.
Design is not art : functional objects from Donal Judd to Rachel Whiteread
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A comprehensive book on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present featuring work by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Scott Burton, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Tuttle and Isamo Noguchi.
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novembre 2004, London, New York
novembre 2004, London, New York
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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The world of design is in confusion. The market suffers from a surplus of products, designers and companies, the majority of which are imitations and epigones that constantly supplant each other. Distinctions between separate disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred, labels merge with one another and design studios go bankrupt. Old and new values clash. The world(...)
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The world of design is in confusion. The market suffers from a surplus of products, designers and companies, the majority of which are imitations and epigones that constantly supplant each other. Distinctions between separate disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred, labels merge with one another and design studios go bankrupt. Old and new values clash. The world(...)
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Bright minds, beautiful ideas : parallel thoughts in different times
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The world of design is in confusion. The market suffers from a surplus of products, designers and companies, the majority of which are imitations and epigones that constantly supplant each other. Distinctions between separate disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred, labels merge with one another and design studios go bankrupt. Old and new values clash. The world economy has been plunged into recession while interest for local aspects is on the rise. High time for a rethink on the role of the designer and the meaning of design. What is an actual and true contemporary attitude to design - what is contemporary design? These are questions posed by "Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas" , an inspiring and brainstorming book that through the imagination and handiwork of four innovative and influential designers, sketches a perspective for today (and possibly the future). Despite differences in background and the date of their oeuvre, Bruno Munari (Italy 1907-1998), Charles and Ray Eames (USA 1907-1978 and 1912-1988), Martí Guixé (Spain 1964) and Jurgen Bey (the Netherlands 1965), share a number of characteristics that are of fundamental importance for design. They question everything and are capable of coupling fantasy, playfulness and investigation with vision. They link culture to economy and science and match curiosity and openness with social commitment and action. Their work and vision are timeless and yet contemporary. "Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas" is a vital book that gives a sparkling singular perspective of roles, values and functions of designers and design.
Bright minds, beautiful ideas : parallel thoughts in different times
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The world of design is in confusion. The market suffers from a surplus of products, designers and companies, the majority of which are imitations and epigones that constantly supplant each other. Distinctions between separate disciplines are becoming increasingly blurred, labels merge with one another and design studios go bankrupt. Old and new values clash. The world economy has been plunged into recession while interest for local aspects is on the rise. High time for a rethink on the role of the designer and the meaning of design. What is an actual and true contemporary attitude to design - what is contemporary design? These are questions posed by "Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas" , an inspiring and brainstorming book that through the imagination and handiwork of four innovative and influential designers, sketches a perspective for today (and possibly the future). Despite differences in background and the date of their oeuvre, Bruno Munari (Italy 1907-1998), Charles and Ray Eames (USA 1907-1978 and 1912-1988), Martí Guixé (Spain 1964) and Jurgen Bey (the Netherlands 1965), share a number of characteristics that are of fundamental importance for design. They question everything and are capable of coupling fantasy, playfulness and investigation with vision. They link culture to economy and science and match curiosity and openness with social commitment and action. Their work and vision are timeless and yet contemporary. "Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas" is a vital book that gives a sparkling singular perspective of roles, values and functions of designers and design.
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mars 2004, Amsterdam
mars 2004, Amsterdam
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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Bernhard Bürdek traces the progress of design from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through the most significant movements of the 20th century, and up to recent developments in biological engineering which will shape the 21st century. Design is now a discipline in its own right and its expertise can be incorporated into interdisciplinary processes. The most(...)
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Bernhard Bürdek traces the progress of design from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through the most significant movements of the 20th century, and up to recent developments in biological engineering which will shape the 21st century. Design is now a discipline in its own right and its expertise can be incorporated into interdisciplinary processes. The most(...)
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Design : history, theory and practice of product design
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Bernhard Bürdek traces the progress of design from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through the most significant movements of the 20th century, and up to recent developments in biological engineering which will shape the 21st century. Design is now a discipline in its own right and its expertise can be incorporated into interdisciplinary processes. The most important and fundamental principles of design theory and methodology are presented, with emphasis on the communicative function of products, corporate and service design, design management, strategic design, interface/interaction design, and human design.
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Bernhard Bürdek traces the progress of design from its beginnings in the late 19th century, through the most significant movements of the 20th century, and up to recent developments in biological engineering which will shape the 21st century. Design is now a discipline in its own right and its expertise can be incorporated into interdisciplinary processes. The most important and fundamental principles of design theory and methodology are presented, with emphasis on the communicative function of products, corporate and service design, design management, strategic design, interface/interaction design, and human design.
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janvier 1900, Basel
janvier 1900, Basel
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Design d’intérieur
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Think plastic. Think inflatable PVC chairs and TV tables. It must be the 1960s, when radical furniture designs "popped" next to new art, traditional designs were recast with new materials, and the results were often mixed in one room. One of the boldest decades of design in the twentieth century, this a decade of contradictions in styles that Anne Bony has captured in(...)
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Think plastic. Think inflatable PVC chairs and TV tables. It must be the 1960s, when radical furniture designs "popped" next to new art, traditional designs were recast with new materials, and the results were often mixed in one room. One of the boldest decades of design in the twentieth century, this a decade of contradictions in styles that Anne Bony has captured in(...)
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Furniture & interiors of the 1960s
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Think plastic. Think inflatable PVC chairs and TV tables. It must be the 1960s, when radical furniture designs "popped" next to new art, traditional designs were recast with new materials, and the results were often mixed in one room. One of the boldest decades of design in the twentieth century, this a decade of contradictions in styles that Anne Bony has captured in this book. "Furniture and interiors of the 1960s" pays homage to the vibrancy and buoyant energy of the decade's design trends and influences in 300 key designs that attract enormous interest and command unprecedented prices today. For the first time, America was leading a design revolution with Wendell Castle's Molar and Castle chairs, Estelle Lavergne's lucite furniture and the experiments of Ray and Charles Eames. Warren Planter, Hans Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Girard, and Robert Propst were world-ranked designers who pioneered new directions in furnishings and accessories that appeared in trendy homes and offices in Europe and Asia.
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Think plastic. Think inflatable PVC chairs and TV tables. It must be the 1960s, when radical furniture designs "popped" next to new art, traditional designs were recast with new materials, and the results were often mixed in one room. One of the boldest decades of design in the twentieth century, this a decade of contradictions in styles that Anne Bony has captured in this book. "Furniture and interiors of the 1960s" pays homage to the vibrancy and buoyant energy of the decade's design trends and influences in 300 key designs that attract enormous interest and command unprecedented prices today. For the first time, America was leading a design revolution with Wendell Castle's Molar and Castle chairs, Estelle Lavergne's lucite furniture and the experiments of Ray and Charles Eames. Warren Planter, Hans Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Alexander Girard, and Robert Propst were world-ranked designers who pioneered new directions in furnishings and accessories that appeared in trendy homes and offices in Europe and Asia.
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mai 2004, Paris
mai 2004, Paris
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Bloomsbury rooms
Bloomsbury rooms
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The first decades of the twentieth century brought enormous change in Britain. Men’s and women’s roles came under scrutiny, class and social structures were transformed. This book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes the rooms designed by(...)
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The first decades of the twentieth century brought enormous change in Britain. Men’s and women’s roles came under scrutiny, class and social structures were transformed. This book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes the rooms designed by(...)
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The first decades of the twentieth century brought enormous change in Britain. Men’s and women’s roles came under scrutiny, class and social structures were transformed. This book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes the rooms designed by Bloomsbury artists as spaces in which to be modern. The book traces the development of Bloomsbury’s domestic aesthetic from the group’s influential promulgation of Post-Impressionism in Britain around 1910 through the 1930's. In detailed studies of rooms created for Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes, among others, by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell and her artist colleagues Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, Reed challenges the accepted notion that these artists drifted away from modernism. He presents their work as an alternative form of modernism, later suppressed by sexist and homophobic attitudes that disparaged the decorative arts and domesticity in general, as well as Bloomsbury in particular. The aesthetic and ideological implications of the Bloomsbury interiors were international in scope, Reed argues, and constitute important episodes in this history of modernity.
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The first decades of the twentieth century brought enormous change in Britain. Men’s and women’s roles came under scrutiny, class and social structures were transformed. This book casts new light on the notorious Bloomsbury Group and how the issues of their day influenced their interpretation and decoration of the home. Christopher Reed analyzes the rooms designed by Bloomsbury artists as spaces in which to be modern. The book traces the development of Bloomsbury’s domestic aesthetic from the group’s influential promulgation of Post-Impressionism in Britain around 1910 through the 1930's. In detailed studies of rooms created for Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes, among others, by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell and her artist colleagues Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, Reed challenges the accepted notion that these artists drifted away from modernism. He presents their work as an alternative form of modernism, later suppressed by sexist and homophobic attitudes that disparaged the decorative arts and domesticity in general, as well as Bloomsbury in particular. The aesthetic and ideological implications of the Bloomsbury interiors were international in scope, Reed argues, and constitute important episodes in this history of modernity.
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mai 2004, New Haven / London
mai 2004, New Haven / London
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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Much like the history of art, the history of interior design encompasses numerous styles, movements and the international political and social developments that have informed or challenged its evolution. This book will be of interest to anyone interested not only in interior design, but also antiques, furniture design, textiles, decorative objects and the general(...)
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Much like the history of art, the history of interior design encompasses numerous styles, movements and the international political and social developments that have informed or challenged its evolution. This book will be of interest to anyone interested not only in interior design, but also antiques, furniture design, textiles, decorative objects and the general(...)
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A history of interior design, second edition
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Much like the history of art, the history of interior design encompasses numerous styles, movements and the international political and social developments that have informed or challenged its evolution. This book will be of interest to anyone interested not only in interior design, but also antiques, furniture design, textiles, decorative objects and the general evolution of the space where we work and live.
A history of interior design, second edition
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Much like the history of art, the history of interior design encompasses numerous styles, movements and the international political and social developments that have informed or challenged its evolution. This book will be of interest to anyone interested not only in interior design, but also antiques, furniture design, textiles, decorative objects and the general evolution of the space where we work and live.
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août 2004, Hoboken
août 2004, Hoboken
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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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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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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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
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septembre 2006, Cologne
septembre 2006, Cologne
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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.
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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septembre 2006, Cologne
septembre 2006, Cologne
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Design d’intérieur
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999 design classics
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(...)
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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(...)
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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 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.
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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février 2006, London, New York
février 2006, London, New York
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Design d’intérieur
Design d’intérieur
