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From Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso, Chairs introduces over 1,000
groundbreaking innovations by the world's greatest designers.
Tracing the history of the modern chair from 1800 to the present
day, revered experts Charlotte and Peter Fiell comprehensively
guide you through the fascinating world of seating design - from
the functional office chair to the limited edition art piece. With
more than 1,000 exquisite images alongside fascinating insights
into the conception, design and production of these masterpieces,
this definitive collection includes design classics such as Josef
Hoffmann's Sitzmaschine, Robin Day's Polyprop and
computer-generated masterworks by Zhang Zhoujie, amongst many more.
Mark Brazier-Jones is a unique force in the world of design, whose
wonderfully eccentric works literally defined the term 'Creative
Salvage' in the mid-1980s. Today, his work is increasingly
recognised as forging a new and more artistically compelling way
forward. As a veritable 'designer-laureate of metal', his metalwork
possesses a poetic sensibility and an engaging quirkiness that is
suffused with symbolic meaning rarely found in contemporary design.
A sumptuously illustrated tome, Mark Brazier-Jones assesses his
approach to design and making, and is an important catalogue
raisonne of his work. By playfully subverting our notions of art,
craft and design Brazier-Jones' surprisingly ecletic work offers an
alternative definition of modern design - one that is about quality
of craftsmanship and individuality of expression that is intended
to last generations.
Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio
Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture,
interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and
ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now
hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and
dealers. This volume spotlights the futuristic, experimental
aesthetic of the 1970s. After the revolutions of the '60s, the
world of design and architecture became an increasingly exciting
and fast-moving hotbed of ideas, rife with vehemently opposing
schools and movements. In many ways it was a more extreme era for
design than the previous decade. Experimentalism was everywhere,
and many projects, thought not practical, were forward-thinking
visions of a new kind of decorative art and design. Various groups
advocated returning to natural methods, rejecting style in favor of
craft or pushing the logic of industrial living to its concrete,
high-rise extreme. Decorative Art 1970s includes the work of the
decade's brightest stars, such as Afra and Tobia Scarpa, Luigi
Colani, Achille Castiglioni, Kisho Kurokawa, Norman Foster, Richard
Meier, and Theo Crosby.
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Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh
(1868-1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture
and design. While he did not receive much recognition in his
hometown of Glasgow during his lifetime, his bold new blend of
simplicity and poetic detail inspired modernists across Europe.
Mackintosh's avant-garde approach embraced a variety of media as
well as fresh stylistic devices. His multi-faceted oeuvre
incorporated architecture, furniture, graphic design, landscapes,
and flower studies. He embraced strong lines, elegant proportions,
and natural motifs, combining an adventurous dose of japonisme with
a modernist sensibility for function. He preferred bold black
typography, restrained shapes, and tall, generous windows suffusing
rooms with light. Much of his work was collaborative practice with
his wife, fellow artist Margaret Macdonald. The couple made up half
of the loose Glasgow collective known as "The Four"; the other two
were Margaret's sister, Frances, and her husband, Herbert MacNair.
On the continent, the "Glasgow Style" was met with delight. In
Italy, Germany, and, in particular, Austria, artists of the
Viennese Secession and Art Nouveau drew much from its rectilinear
yet lyrical forms. In this introductory book, we take in
Mackintosh's practice across art, architecture, and design to
explore his particular combination of the statuesque and sensual
and its vital influence on modernist expression across Europe.
Featured projects include his complete scheme for the Willow Tea
Rooms and the Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art,
widely considered Mackintosh's masterwork.
Designers from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland have
long pursued the shared goal of social equality through design,
believing that well-designed everyday goods not only enhance daily
life, but should also be the birthright of all. Modern Scandinavian
Design is the ultimate guide to the distinctive design tradition
arising out of these five Nordic countries since 1925. Bestselling
design authors Charlotte and Peter Fiell have extensively explored
all aspects of the aesthetic, along with additional research
provided by Magnus Englund of Skandium With sections on
architecture, furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, metalwork,
woodenware, plastics, textiles, jewellery and graphic design, this
will be an indispensable resource for any design enthusiast,
collector or casual reader seeking inspiration for their home.
If you take even the slightest interest in the design of your
toothbrush, the history behind your washing machine, or the
evolution of the telephone, you'll take an even greater interest in
this completely updated edition of Industrial Design A-Z. Tracing
the evolution of industrial design from the Industrial Revolution
to the present day, the book bursts with synergies of form and
function that transform our daily experience. From cameras to
kitchenware, Lego to Lamborghini, we meet the individual designers,
the global businesses, and above all the genius products that
become integrated into even the smallest details of our lives.
Alongside star designers like Marc Newson and Philippe Starck and
major global brands like Braun and Apple, lesser-known and newcomer
entries such as Brompton Bicycles and Enercon wind turbines attest
to product design's restless pace, as well as to today's most
pressing challenges and priorities to which it must turn its
creative invention. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis -
Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN
universe!
More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been
subjected to the wildest dreams of the designer. The particular
curve of a backrest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or
the color of the entire artifact; each element reflects the
stylistic consciousness of an era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar
Aalto to Verner Panton and Eva Zeisel, from Art Nouveau to
International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the history of
the chair is so complex that it requires a comprehensive
encyclopedic work to do it full justice. They are all here:
Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel
Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant-garde armchairs. Early
designers and pioneers of the modern chair are presented alongside
the most recent innovations in seating. This dedicated compendium
displays each chair as pure form, along with biographical and
historical information about the pieces and their designers. An
illuminating tome for design aficionados and an essential reference
for collectors! About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact
cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese
architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the
world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With
style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic
movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.
This fresh reprint of domus’ coverage of the 1940s brings
together the most important features from a decade of destruction
and reconstruction. Even amid the bombing raids inflicted on Milan,
domus continued to publish through much of the war, charting the
design zeitgeist, while managing a successive turnover of editors
and editors-in-chief during Ponti’s “interregnum” between
1941 and 1948. The pages from this period record reports and
features on modern industrial design and furniture, new
prefabricated houses, American academic architecture, the building
projects of Carlo Mollino, Gian Luigi Banfi, Franco Albini, and
Giuseppe Terragni, as well as the postwar flowering of Organic
Design. domus distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over
4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most important
designers and architects Original layouts and all covers, with
captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays by
renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an
appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which
were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in
each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names
Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese
architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the
world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With
style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic
movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.
This fresh reprint of domus' 1950s coverage brings together the
most important features from an era of post-war optimism. As
memories of conflict receded, architecture and design sought new
forms, materials, and applications, as well as increasing
international dialogue. Highlights include Le Corbusier’s design
of the United Nations Building in New York; the Case Study Houses
of Charles and Ray Eames; Richard Neutra in California, office
machines by Olivetti, furniture by Ray and Charles Eames, ceramics
and tables by Ettore Sottsass, and the Herman Miller Showroom by
Alexander Girard in San Francisco. domus distilled Seven volumes
spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring influential
projects by the most important designers and architects Original
layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation and
context Introductory essays by renowned architects and designers
Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts translated into
English, many of which were previously only available in Italian A
comprehensive index in each volume listing both designers’ and
manufacturers’ names
Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio
Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture,
interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and
ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now
hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and
dealers. Decorative Art 1960s looks at the birth of pop in a decade
of unprecedented social, sexual, and political change. All the
restless energies bubbling throughout the world during the 1960s
made their way into the design style of the decade. Liberation was
in the air, men were rushing to the moon, and the sky was the limit
as far as visual creativity was concerned. The concept of lifestyle
really came into its own, and although the early years of the
decade still saw a rivalry between the well-crafted object and the
industrially manufactured, by its end both ethnic and pop
iconography had gained equal foothold in the aesthetic. Light was
also predominant in shaping interiors. Freedom of choice and
personal expression were the buzzwords for the young consumer, and
so the likes of Panton, Sottsass, Paolozzi, Parisi, Sarpaneva, and
Lomazzi did what they could to oblige.
Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio
Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture,
interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and
ceramics. Since the publications went out of print, the now
hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and
dealers. TASCHEN's Decorative Art 50s explores the spirit of
optimism and the fervent consumerism of the decade. Technology and
construction had been enervated by research during the war and
these discoveries could now be applied in peacetime. The
popularization of plastics, fiberglass, and latex literally shaped
the decade. Rising incomes and postwar rebuilding on both sides of
the Atlantic led to a massive housing boom in both the suburbs and
inner cities, and these new homes reflected the new style. While
European design was extraordinarily inventive, American design was
looking to an idealized vision of the future-between them a modern
idiom was developed that can be seen vividly on these pages. This
overview of the decade includes the work of such famous innovators
as Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Hans Wegner, and Gio
Ponti.
Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese
architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the
world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With
style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylistic
movements in industrial, interior, product, and structural design.
This fresh reprint of the 1970s domus coverage brings together the
most important features from an era marking seismic changes in
architecture and design. It was a time when individualism gained
momentum as a novel style, and we began to notice the first
postmodernist tendencies. Faced with the global energy crisis,
architects and designers imbued their methods with a new ecological
awareness. For work to be featured in the magazine it had to offer
function, spatial clarity, intellectual persuasion, relevant
originality, and/or grace. Those groundbreaking projects and
practitioners that made the cut include Shiro Kuramata, Verner
Panton, Joe Colombo, Richard Meier, the modernist structures by
Foster Associates and the Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano
and Richard Rogers. domus distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to
1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring influential projects by the most
important designers and architects Original layouts and all covers,
with captions providing navigation and context Introductory essays
by renowned architects and designers Each edition comes with an
appendix featuring texts translated into English, many of which
were previously only available in Italian A comprehensive index in
each volume listing both designers’ and manufacturers’ names
Offering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the
“living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928.
Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted
the major themes and movements of industrial, interior, product,
and structural design with an eye for creative excellence as much
as editorial rigor. This fresh reprint features domus’ coverage
from the transformative years between 1928 and 1939. It is an era
famed for the emergence of the International Style when the likes
of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto, and
Richard Neutra channeled modernist ideals into rectilinear forms,
restrained surfaces, and open, luminous interiors. The domus
coverage of this decisive decade spanned the details and the grand
designs. From soaring steel skyscrapers to tubular furniture, its
coverage is a definitive record of how light, form, and pared-down
aesthetics combined in the pursuit of an honest and utilitarian
form for the modern and rapidly industrializing age. domus
distilled Seven volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages
featuring influential projects by the most important designers and
architects Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing
navigation and context Introductory essays by renowned architects
and designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts
translated into English, many of which were previously only
available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing
both designers’ and manufacturers’ names
Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this
edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights.
Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th century's most
interesting electric lights, from 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, Postmodern, and
Contemporary-in 640 pages of truly illuminated works. This
definitive reference work is a must-have for collectors and design
fans. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural
companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have
shaped industrial and product design. Written by two experts on
modern design, it provides both a concise history of the subject,
and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general
reader. From the origins or modern design in the craft movements of
the 19th and early 20th century and the changes brought about by
mass production, the book traces the most important ideas in design
through the modern movement and post-war consumer society to more
recent ideas such as Open-Source Design and Biomimicry. Arranged in
a broadly chronological order, the ideas are presented through
fascinating text and arresting visuals, 100 Ideas that Changed
Design explores when each idea first evolved and the subsequent
impact it has had up to the present day.
Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese
architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the
world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With
both style and rigor, it has offered consistent coverage of major
themes and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and
industrial design. This fresh reprint features the highlights from
the 1960s issues and documents the daring, practical, and beautiful
projects of a decade of futuristic thrill and booming pop culture.
Synthetics and plastics hit the stage, leading to radical new
design, while conventional notions of elegance give way to fresh
exploratory forms. For work to be featured in the magazine it had
to offer function, spatial clarity, intellectual persuasion,
relevant originality, and/or grace. Those projects and
practitioners that made the grade include Ray and Charles Eames,
Gae Aulenti, Kenzo Tange, Verner Panton, Achille and Pier Giacomo
Castiglioni, Ettore Sottsass, Carlo Scarpa, Angelo Mangiarotti,
Cesare Maria Casati, and Eero Saarinen. domus distilled Seven
volumes spanning 1928 to 1999 Over 4,000 pages featuring
influential projects by the most important designers and architects
Original layouts and all covers, with captions providing navigation
and context Introductory essays by renowned architects and
designers Each edition comes with an appendix featuring texts
translated into English, many of which were previously only
available in Italian A comprehensive index in each volume listing
both designers’ and manufacturers’ names
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Morris (Hardcover)
Charlotte &. Peter Fiell, Taschen
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William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the greatest creative figures
of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a
manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered
the Arts and Crafts movement of the Victorian era, and left an
extraordinary influence on architecture, textile, and interior
design. This richly illustrated book offers a suitably beautiful
introduction to Morris's colorful life and all aspects of his
design work, including interiors, tiles, embroidery, tapestries,
carpets, and calligraphy. Though best known in his lifetime as a
poet and author, it is these exquisite designs that secured
Morris's posthumous reputation. As page after page dazzles with
their beautiful patterns and forms, we explore the pioneering
craftsmanship and natural motifs that inspired them, as well as
Morris's remarkable cultural legacy, through British textiles,
Bauhaus, and even modern environmentalism. About the series Born
back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to
the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological
order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as
well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the
selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and
most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs,
sketches, drafts, and plans)
From the adrenaline-filled 24 Hours of Le Mans to the legendary
Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lake Como's famed Concorso d'Eleganza
Villa d'Este to the premier Monterey Car Week, the collector car
calendar and market has shown one of the most extraordinary growth
trajectories of recent years. As thousands flock to specialized
meet ups, rallies, auctions, and Concours d'Elegance around the
globe, asking prices for the rarest motors have revved higher and
higher. So much so, that the value of the 100 cars included in this
book exceeds a staggering $ 1 billion. For the seasoned car
collector or the awestruck newcomer, this double-volume is the
unrivaled collector car anthology. Curating 100 of the most
exquisite, remarkable, and desirable cars of all time to tell a
spellbinding story of automotive design-and-engineering endeavor in
the tireless pursuit of ever-greater performance both on and off
the track, from the first Indy 500-winning 1910 Marmon Wasp to the
futuristic 2020 Aston Martin Valkyrie. Laps ahead of any generic
catalog, this superlative volume exudes authority and elegance,
settling for nothing less than the very best of the best, and
presenting each model with the lavish spreads it deserves, complete
with stunning imagery taken by the world's leading car
photographers alongside rare archival treasures, from original
factory photos to famous motorsports event posters. Each entry is
also accompanied by expert descriptive texts and specs, detailing
each car's make, model, year, engine size, horsepower, top speed,
transmission, and all-important production numbers. By passionately
tapping into their transatlantic expertise and insider knowledge of
car auctions, museums, and collections around the world, design
authors Peter and Charlotte Fiell survey the autoworld's finest
cars of all time. Their carefully curated selection spans the whole
history of the automobile, taking in such rare models as a 1912
Stutz Model A Bearcat, as well as lesser-known jewels such as the
astonishing 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS "Goutte d'Eau" Coupe by
Figoni et Falaschi. This definitive compendium includes a foreword
from Rob Myers, the founder of RM Sotheby's, and includes an
introduction from the authors that gives a unique perspective on
the ins and outs of car collecting at the highest level. The main
content is interspersed with interviews with Dr. Frederick Simeone,
founder of the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum; The Duke of
Richmond and Gordon, founder of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and
Goodwood Revival; Sandra Button, Chairman of the Pebble Beach
Concours d'Elegance; John Collins, leading dealer of historic
Ferraris; and Shelby Myers, global head of Private Sales at RM
Sotheby's, which offer key personal insights into the
car-collecting world.
A stunning and thought-provoking round-up of today's most
interesting visual communication projects, Graphic Design
Sourcebook surveys the work of one hundred of the world's most
exciting and groundbreaking practitioners. This informative guide
to contemporary graphic design is illustrated with a wide variety
of projects, from websites, apps, banner ads, packaging and
infographics to exhibition design, social issue posters, corporate
branding campaigns and interactive media design. Each designer's
entry also includes detailed biographic information and a short
precis on the designer's approach, written by the designers
themselves. Graphic Design Sourcebook is an essential guide for
anyone interested in the power of visual communication, and is an
absolute must-have publication for students and professional
practitioners alike.
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