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Morrison
Jasper Morrison
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Jasper Morrison (Contributor)
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Dis Voir (Editor)
Contributions by Jasper Morrison.
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Morrison
Jasper Morrison: A World Without Words
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Princeton Arch Staff (Author)
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Lars Muller (Editor)
Design is not done with rules, but with intuition. Intuition never lies. --Jasper Morrison 4.25 x 6.25 in.
104 illustrations
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Nakashima
Jasper Morrison: Everything But the Walls
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Jasper Morrison (Author)
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Lars Muller (Editor)
Jasper Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. Instead, he has chosen to align himself from the start with an approach that designers often return to after careers spent otherwise: simple and durable forms that remain functional and true to their materials, and retain an unmistakable and exciting modern formal language. His success in the European design landscape over the past decade is without parallel, perhaps because his first furniture and interior designs appeared at a time when the overwhelming nature of flashy décor had become underwhelming. Arguing against "Uselessism" and for "Utilism," Morrison equates the decorative content of a design with a lack of understanding of design's utilitarian purpose. Likewise, he continues to apply himself to doorhandles and doors, bottles of beer and busstops, regarding no aspect of daily life as unworthy of consideration as a design problem. Everything But the Walls provides a much needed survey of Morrison's working methods and their results, as well as an exploration of the sources of his inspirations and ideas. Design is not done with rules, but with intuition. Intuition never lies. --Jasper Morrison Edited by Jasper Morrison and Lars Muller. Hardcover, 240 pages, 200 color images.
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Nakashima
George Nakashima And the Modernist Moment
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Bruce Katsiff (Author)
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Finn Juhl (Author)
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Carlo Mollino (Author)
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George Nakashima (Author)
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Alexandre Noll (Author)
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Charlotte Perriand (Author)
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Jean Prouve (Author)
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Steven Beyer (Author)
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Matilda McQuaid (Editor)
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James A. Michener Art Museum (Editor)
With his spiritually-inclined philosophy and his decision to establish his career in rural Pennsylvania, Japanese-American furniture designer George Nakashima has always existed within a mythology of craftsmanship that celebrates regionalism and the handmade. Yet, as this catalogue shows, he also belongs within the practice of mid-century European modernism, amongst a roster of artists including Charlotte Perriand, Carlo Mollino, Jean Prouve, Alexandre Noll, and Finn Juhl, with whom he shared a respect for that which is visible in the details. Details, as they all knew, reveal a belief that materials and construction are not only functional, but are also aesthetic, complex, and precise.
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Nakashima
Nature Form & Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima
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Mira Nakashima (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
Acclaimed furniture designer George Nakashima (1905-1990) made boldly original pieces prized for their superb craftsmanship and their organic use of the natural lines and grain of wood. Today his beautiful creations are avidly sought by private collectors and are housed in museum collections all over the world. This survey of Nakashima's life and work-written by his daughter, the noted designer Mira Nakashima-is the most revealing look we have ever had at this woodworking genius and his profound influence on contemporary design. Mira Nakashima chronicles not only the furniture designs for which her father was best known, but also his equally fine work as an architect. Illustrated with a wealth of photographs never before published and containing much new information from the Nakashima studio archives, Nature, Form, and Spirit is timed to coincide with the release of a full-length documentary film on Nakashima and an exhibition at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego. In exploring his personal and philosophic journey, Mira Nakashima provides a remarkable look at the development of an artist whose reverence for nature was at the heart of his creative work.
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Nelson
The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworkers Reflections
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George Nakashima (Author)
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Kodansha International (Editor)
On a farmlike compound near New Hope, Pennsylvania, George Nakashima, his family, and fellow wood-workers create exquisite furniture from richly grained, rare timber. Tables, desks, chairs, and cabinets from this simple workshop grace the homes and mansions and executive boardrooms of people who prize such excellence. In this lavishly illustrated volume, George Nakashima allows us in intimate look at his artistry, his philosophy, his life. It is the portrait of an artisan who strives to find the ideal use for each plank in order to "create an object of utility to man and, if nature smiles, an object of lasting beauty."
The author's search for the meaning of life took him as a young man to Paris, Tokyo, and Pondicherry, India. In India, he found the inner peace for which he had been searching and began to find ways to work with timber. He writes movingly about the grandeur of ancient trees and stunning figured woods and explains how he selects and prepares his materials. Above all, he impresses us with his devotion to discovering the inherent beauty of wood so that noble trees might have a second life as furniture. The Soul of a Tree looks at the world through the eyes of an artist and evokes the joy of living in harmony with nature.
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Nelson
George Nelson: Compact Design Portfolio
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Michael Webb (Author)
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Raul Cabra (Editor)
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Marisa Bartolucci (Editor)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
Continuing to put great classic and contemporary design within everyone s grasp, Chronicle Books proudly delivers the next four installments of the popular Compact Design Portfolio. Written by top design critics, these books cover modern masters whose work ranges from the cozily domestic to the aggressively avant-garde: Eva Zeisel, whose elegantly democratic housewares span a 70-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lamp and lighting design to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce, whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the impresario behind the Marshmallow sofa and other Herman Miller classics. Follow-ing the introductory essay, a visual gallery exhibits selections of the designers best work in photographs and sketches. Presented in an irresistible small format, this series encapsulates the life, work, and influence of the great designers of our time.
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Newson
George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design
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Stanley Abercrombie (Author)
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The MIT Press (Editor)
Honorable Mention, 1994 Joel Polsky Prize given by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)
George Nelson (1908-1986) was a pioneering modernist who ranks with Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, and Eliot Noyes as one of America's outstanding designers. Nelson's office produced some of the twentieth century's canonical pieces of industrial design, many of which are still in production: the ball clock, the bubble lamp, the sling sofa. Nelson also made major contributions to the storage wall, the shopping mall, the multi-media presentation, and the open-plan office system. The author of this definitive biography was given access to Nelson's office archives and personal papers. He also interviewed more than 70 of Nelson's friends, colleagues, employees, and clients (including the late D. J. De Pree, former head of the Herman Miller Furniture Company and Nelson's chief patron) and obtained many previously unpublished images from corporate and private archives.
The full range of Nelson's work is represented, from product and furniture design to packaging and graphics to large-scale projects such as the Fairchild house and the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. Because Nelson was a serious and original thinker about design issues, Abercrombie quotes extensively from his published and unpublished writings, offering provocative new material to students of design theory and philosophy.
The appendixes, compiled by Judith Nasatir, include a chronology of Nelson's work, a biographical chronology, and two bibliographies: one of writings by Nelson and the other of writings about him.
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Newson
Marc Newson
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Alice Rawsthorn (Author)
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Booth-Clibborn (Editor)
Marc Newson is one of the most exciting and influential designers of his generation. At 35, he has worked for clients all over the world from studios in Sydney, Tokyo, Paris, London, New York, and Los Angeles. His work includes designs for major companies such as Alessi, B&BItalia, Capellini, Flos, Iittala and Magis. He designed the Canteen Bar in New York, and is re-designing the Standard Hot bar in Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections at San Francisco Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and at MOMA in New York. He has designed a concept car for the Ford motor company, the 021C, which was launched at the Tokyo Motor Show in fall 1999, and was shown at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2000. The book features Newson's dynamic body of work, combining personal archive of sketches and plans and traces the development of Newson's distinctive visual language, inspired by such idiosyncratic influences as the architecture of Richard Neutra, Aston Martin sports cars and the films of Stanley Kubrick. The book is packaged in its own Newson-designed blow-molded plastic slipcase. 10 x 12", includes approximately 200 full-color images
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