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Eames
Work of Charles and Ray Eames
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Donald Albrecht (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
Charles and Ray Eames gave shape to America's 20th century. From the 1940s to the late 1970s, the Los Angeles-based husband-and-wife team designed furniture, buildings, toys, films, graphics, exhibitions, and books that aimed to improve society -- not only functionally but culturally and intellectually as well. This comprehensive volume is published on the occasion of a major international traveling exhibition organized by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and the Vitra Design Museum, Well am Rhein, Germany, the holders of the two richest Eames collections in the world. The Eameses' wholehearted belief that design could enhance people's lives remains their greatest lesson. Taking a fresh approach to their multifaceted careers, six generously illustrated essays examine the Eameses' projects in the contexts of science, corporate patronage, and politics as well as those of modern design, architecture, and art.
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Ferebee
Bent Ply
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Dung Ngo (Author)
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Eric Pfeiffer (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Plywood is arguably the most modern design artifact: it is a material born of natural wood and formed by vigorous industrial processes that can assume the most organic of shapes through bending, laminating, and molding. plywood truly fulfills that most modern of dreams: bridging the gap between technology and nature.
Bent Ply is the first book devoted to plywood in modern design. The book consists of two parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); the second, an annotated journal of the making of a piece of bent plywood furniture, from the forest to the showroom.
Bent Ply contains numerous illustrations of the classics of bent ply design, including furniture from Alvar Aalto, Michael Thonet, and Charles and Ray Eames, and examples of its appropriation by the military: John F. Kennedy s PT109 boat and the DeHavilland Mosquito were both fabricated from plywood.
Anyone interested in furniture design, woodworking, or materials will be fascinated by Bent Ply.
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Ferebee
Furniture Design/Mobel Design/Design De Meubles/Muebles De Siseno: Mobel Design (teNeus tools series)
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Francisco Asensio Cerver (Editor)
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Cristina Montes (Editor)
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Te Neues Publishing Company (Editor)
Whether it's the Eames chair, a Noguchi lamp, a Knoll table or a dresser designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the best furniture is timeless and comfortable, utilitarian and unique. Featuring more than 450 colour images, this volume explores the world of furniture design. Classics from Philippe Starck, van der Rohem, Le Corbusier, and Maurer and Aalto are depicted side-by-side with work from contemporary designers, such as Jorge Pensi, Marco Sousa Santos, Waldemar Rothe, Roberto Giacomucci and others. From chairs, tables, sideboards and highboys to beds, lamps, desks and bookcases, this volume is a comprehensive study of the world's finest furniture.
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Ferebee
International Design Yearbook 18 (International Design Yearbook)
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Karim Rashid (Author)
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Abbeville Press (Editor)
Now in its eighteenth year, this unique showcase remains the most authoritative guide to contemporary domestic design. Covering the best and most innovative furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products created over the past eighteen months by both well-known designers and new names from around the world, this year's striking selections have been made by the acclaimed New York-based furniture and product designer Karim Rashid. In a departure from the Yearbook's traditional format, objects are grouped thematically according to current global design trends: Futuretro, Nukitsch, Phenomena, Organic, Embellishment, Multiplicity, Minimum, and Techno. The book is richly illustrated in color throughout, and many images are accompanied by extended captions explaining their form, function, and innovations. Full technical data is given for each object, and a comprehensive reference section is included with designers' biographies and a list of suppliers' contact details. An introduction by Jennifer Hudson provides an insight into Karim Rashid's background, working practices, and design vision, while Rashid's own introduction explains the reasoning behind his selections as well as his transformation of the Yearbook's presentation to reflect the multiple directions of international design today. Other Details: 200 color illustrations
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Ferebee
Design Encyclopedia, The
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Mel Byars (Author)
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Terence Riley (Foreword)
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Editor)
The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation with an international team of design experts, The Encyclopedia sets out to provide the factual framework of a discipline whose own historical accounting of itself is still relatively young. (By way of contrast, art history has existed as a scholarly discipline for over two centuries, and has produced a fairly comprehensive record of itself in that time period.) Only once before has a similarly comprehensive overview of the history of design been attempted--in 1994, also by Mel Byars. The Encyclopedia is about design, of course, but these days "design" seems to encompass almost everything, from magazine layouts and sweatshirts to animatronic flower gardens and heart pumps, not to mention the more abstract "information design." Here, however, design is considered only in its concrete application to functional objects, thus crossing with craft, decorative arts, and industrial design, but distinguishing itself from fine art and theory. The result is 832 pages covering the last 130 years in the history of the design of furniture, lighting, fabrics, ceramics, glassware, metalware, objects in a range of other materials, and mechanical, electrical, and electronic appliances, as well as automobiles and some inventions. There are separate entries for designers and craftspeople, design studios, consortiums and partnerships, noteworthy manufacturers, significant historical periods and styles, and materials. Entries, 3,600 in all, are self-contained and organized alphabetically, and include cross-references. Information is an amalgamation of data gathered from a vast number of primary and secondary sources. With over 700 full-color illustrations, most of which are drawn from the MoMA collection, the remainder from Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen in Munich and Hamburg or directly from designers or manufacturers, this publication is an invaluable, definitive compendium of the world of design over the last century and a half.
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Ferebee
The International Design Yearbook, 20 (International Design Yearbook)
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Marcel Wanders (Editor)
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Abbeville Press (Editor)
In this, the twentieth edition of the leading international showcase of domestic design, guest editor and acclaimed Dutch designer Marcel Wanders surveys the world of design and identifies new, original and interesting work in the areas of furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and products. His eclectic selection ranges from packaging for lipsticks and disposable underwear to a loft cube and inflatable mobile office space. The latest technologies are also featured, including a washing machine from Dyson, Apple?s mini iPod, a new robotic dog from Sony, and the world?s first intelligent shoe, created by Adidas. Each object is illustrated with the superb photography that has helped earn the series its excellent reputation. In addition, full technical information is provided for each entry. The reference section provides readers with a comprehensive list of suppliers? names and addresses, as well as biographies of the designers. New to this year?s edition will be an illustrated feature highlighting key events in the design world in the last twelve months, as well as quotes from well-known designers about their favorite designs of the year. As always, introductions by the editors, Hudson and Wanders, provide insight into this year?s collection and the issues currently influencing the design world.
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Ferebee
Young Designers Americas (Design Books)
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daab (Author)
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Carissa Kowalski Dougherty (Editor)
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daab (Editor)
Designers in The Americas - including North, South and Central America - are as diverse as the cultures within which they work. In fact, it is difficult to talk about them as one cohesive group; their passions, design strategies, and formal outcomes cannot be summed up in a simple mission statement, nor should they be. This book presents 61 projects from the Young Designers Americas to celebrate the diversity of the ideas and the designers of the American countries.
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Fornasetti
Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams (Piero Fornasetti)
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Patrick Mauries (Author)
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Piero Fornasetti (Author)
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Victoria and Albert Museum (Corporate Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
During Piero Fornasetti's long career he established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own--a style based on illusionism, architectural perspectives, and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards, fishes, and flowers, from which he spun seemingly endless variations. Fornasetti applied his decorative vocabulary to an astonishing array of objects--hats, waistcoats, pipes, ashtrays, chairs, plates, cabinets, pianos, shops, racing cars, ocean liners: all were transformed by the application of unexpected images. The Post-Modernist reappraisal of design has left Fornasetti's oeuvre more contemporary and popular than ever. Designers and collectors today celebrate his use of allusion, unsettling images, and striking juxtapositions to create unique, whimsical objects. Fornasetti's masterpieces shock, delight, and inspire.
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