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Prouvé
Jean Prouve Complete Works- Volume 1: 1917-1933
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Peter Sulzer (Author)
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Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier (Photographer)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was one of the most outstanding design engineers of the 20th century. His work is a remarkable combination of creative imagination, technical skill and visionary enterprise. The first of Birkhäuser's 4-volume edition of Prouvé's Complete Works covers the period between 1917 and 1933 including the first metalwork objects (staircase railings, lamps), the first standardised building products (windows, doors, movable partitions), the first furniture in moulded steel and the first building projects to use folded sheet metal, such as operating theatres in Lyon's Hôpital Grange Blanche, as well as the text of numerous conversations with Jean Prouvé. "Peter Sulzer's work is an admirable catalogue raisonné of the works of Jean Prouvé... He has made a remarkable synthesis from a variety of sources, rigorously organised on the page and easily readable" (commendation on the award of the French Briey Prize for an architectural book).
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Rashid
Jean Prouvé - Oeuvre complète / Complete Works: Volume 2: 1934-1944 (Jean Prouve: Complete Works)
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Peter Sulzer (Author)
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Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier (Photographer)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was one of the most renowned design engineers of the 20th century. This volume, the second in Birkhäuser's 4-volume edition of Prouvé's Complete Works, covers the period between 1934 and 1944, including such significant works as the "semi-metal" Chair no. 4 and its variations, which went into serial production from 1935 onwards, office furniture for the Parisian Electricity Supply Works and seating for the lecture hall of the École des sciences politiques in Paris. In 1934 Prouvé's workshop commenced production of entirely pre-fabricated sheet metal buildings such as the Flying Club at Buc. One of the triumphs of this period is the Maison du Peuple communal hall in Clichy, an outstanding monument of functionalism and a "hymn to metal and folded sheet". This volume also includes texts of previously unpublished conversations with Prouvé about the Flying Club and Maison du Peuple.
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Rashid
Design Your Self: Rethinking the Way You Live, Love, Work, and Play
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Karim Rashid (Author)
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Collins Design (Editor)
Celebrated industrial designer Karim Rashid explains how to optimize all areas of life, aesthetic and spiritual, in this colorful, beautifully designed book. Design wonderkind Karim Rashid, whose projects range from the Trump Towers apartments to Lacoste sportswear to the ubiquitous Umbra garbage can, prescribes an organizational and style overhaul in Design Your Life. In short, sharp chapters, he tackles topics as diverse as the wardrobe, office space, love life, and diet, answering perplexing questions like how to properly pack a suitcase, use colors to accent a room, and carve out free time in a busy schedule. Whether the reader is looking to redesign his physical space or spiritual life, Design Your Life offers comprehensive guidance that is straightforward and easy to follow. Rashid's philosophies center on quality over quantity, space over clutter, clarity over complexity, and a marriage of form and function in every design. With each page in vibrant color and packed with his charming artwork and sketches, Design Your Life is an ideal gift book?and the very embodiment of Rashid's functional style.
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Rashid
Karim Rashid: Compact Design Portfolio
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Marisa Bartolucci (Author)
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Raul Cabra (Editor) (Editor)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
The newest addition to the successful Compact Design Portfolio series focuses on a designer whose work is as visionary as it is recognizable; Karim Rashid, whose popular designs -? found everywhere from Target to Nambe -- have made him a household name. As with the other titles in the series, this book is written by a renowned design critic and provides a substantial gallery of the designer's works in a handy package. Authoritative, attractive, and supremely affordable, the Compact Design Portfolio is easily the best?value design book series on the market.
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Rohde
Karim Rashid: I Want to Change the World
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Karim Rashid (Author)
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Universe Publishing (Editor)
Karim Rashid is the bestknown and most prolific young designer practicing in America today. On the brink of household-name celebrity, he has fast become a superstar among design aficionados by revolutionizing the visual standards of minimalist design with his fresh, colorful, sinuous, and sensual objects. His work is in the collections of museums worldwide, including The Musemu of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Rashid's designs, his products and the philosophy behind them. Edited and designed in close collaboration with Rashid and including a stellar list of contributors from the design community contributors this book is sure to be the reference source for years to come.
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Royère
Herman Miller 1939 Catalog: Gilbert Rohde Modern Design With Value Guide (Schiffer Design Book)
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Leslie Pina (Author)
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Inc. Herman Miller (Corporate Author)
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Schiffer Publishing (Editor)
The Herman Miller Furniture Company was devoted to manufacturing period reproduction furniture until pioneer industrial designer Gilbert Rohde walked into their Grand Rapids showroom in 1930. A devout modernist, Rohde convinced D.J. De Pree to focus on modern furniture throughout the 1930s, and to produce exclusively modern furniture by the time Rohde died in 1944. This exact reprint of the 1939 product catalog from the Herman Miller Archives is an historic document showing hundreds of Art Deco and other classic modern furniture designs, all by Rohde. His use of exotic veneers, tubular steel, bentwood, and plastics was innovative and important in the evolution of modernism. With an added price guide, this catalog will be an invaluable tool for the researcher, collector, dealer, and museum curator.
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Sapper
Jean Royere
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Catherine De Beyrie (Author)
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Jacques Ouaiss (Author)
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Galerie de Beyrie/Jacques Ouaiss (Editor)
For the first time in English, this book makes available the oeuvre of Jean Royere, one of the most important French designers of the mid-20th century, and one whose furniture, lamp, and textile designs and aesthetic have become iconic for designers and lovers of 20th century furniture. Luxuriously produced, it includes two text section printed on heavy ivory stock with essays from dealers, collectors, and historians, surrounding a 144 page color section that documents a wide variety of work from several genres: metal work, sculptural furniture, upholstered seating, and wood and caned furniture. The cover illustration, printed with real gold, is Royere's most famous pattern "the Tour Eiffel." Edited by Catherine de Beyrie, Stephane de Beyrie and Jacques Ouaiss. Essays by DD Allen, Michael Boyd, Barbara and Richard Lane and Nicholas Powell. 144 color and 32 b&w. 9.5 x 12.25 in.
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Sieger Design
Richard Sapper (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)
The stylish little books in our new Compact Design Portfolio series put great classic and contemporary design within everyone's grasp. Launching with four leading designers of the twentieth century--Richard Sapper, Michael Graves, Eileen Gray, and Jean Prouve--these exciting new books defy the idea that design is inaccessible. Each book contains an introductory essay addressing the designer's life and work, penned by a distinguished design writer with real knowledge of and fresh enthusiasm for the designer at hand. Subsequent pages dynamically illustrate numerous key works in photographs and sketches--from Sapper's famous Tizio lamp to Graves's Target line, Prouve's pioneering metal furniture to Gray's Rioli desk. This series will extend into future seasons with more titles featuring an eclectic mix of international design heroes. In an irresistible small format packed with images and useful information, the Compact Design Portfolio books are affordable enough to collect the entire series. At long last, here's the perfect introduction to the influential designers who changed the face of contemporary design.
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Sipek
Sieger Design: Strategies of Success
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Christian W. Thomsen (Author)
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Wasmuth (Editor)
Since Wasmuth's 1994 publication about Dieter Sieger, Sieger Design has developed into one of the largest and most successful design offices in Germany. A family firm now largely in the hands of the founder's sons, this volume finds Sieger Design firmly part of the international design context that has taken hold of the beginnning of the 21st century, shifting away from isolated product design toward scientifically founded, closely networked design projects.
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