Individual designers Books
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
Book SynopsisItalian-born American artist Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was one of the most prolific, innovative artists of the post-war period. Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he met future colleagues and collaborators Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen, he went on to make one-of-a kind jewellery, design iconic chairs, create thousands of unique sculptures including large-scale commissions for significant buildings, and advance the use of sound as sculptural material. His work speaks to the confluence of numerous fields of endeavour, but is united throughout by a sculptural approach to making and an experimental embrace of metal. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life accompanies the first U.S. museum retrospective of the artist's career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice, and feature important examples of his furniture, jewellery, monotypes, and diverse sculptural output. Lavishly illustrated, the book offers new scholarly essays as well as a catalogue of the artists numerous large-scale commissions. It questions how and why we distinguish between a chair, a necklace, a screen, and a freestanding sculpture and what Bertoia's sculptural things, when taken together, say about the fluidity of visual language across culture, both at mid-century and now.
£41.60
DruckVerlag Kettler Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography: A-Z
Book SynopsisThe 1920s in Germany witnessed a revolution in visual communication, typography, and graphic design that still influences us today. In 1929, Hungarian avant-garde artist and Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy was invited to design a room dedicated to the future of typography at the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin as part of a larger exhibition called New Typography ("Neue Typographie"). The exhibition was organised by the Ring of New Advertising Designers ("ring neue werbegestalter"), a group started by Kurt Schwitters in 1927 which consisted of 12 avant-garde designers and artists who explored a common vision of modernity in advertising and graphic design. In five years, the Ring put on over 20 shows in Germany, and invited guest artists to exhibit with them. Moholy-Nagy's room in the New Typography show was called "Where is Typography Headed?". He created 78 freestanding panels with work by himself, other artists, and contemporary printed matter, which addressed the current trends and future direction of typography. The panels are reproduced together in this book for the first time, along with an Abcdarium of terms and concepts by a roster of noted typography and design historians.
£52.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Willem de Rooj: Fong Leng. Sportswear
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£29.00
JOVIS Verlag Ethics in Aesthetics
Book SynopsisBilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Can aesthetic concepts reflect and provide answers for ethical aspects and issues? Is “more ethics, less aesthetics” applicable, according to the motto of the Venice Biennial for architecture in the year 2000? Or isn’t “more aesthetics” in fact just what is required to encourage reflection about ethical responsibilities and dimensions in architecture, art, and design? This publication is a collection of reflections about the ethical and political dimensions of creations, presented from the point of view of art, architecture, design, and curatorial practice. The contributions range from historical reviews to future-oriented outlooks, illustrating interdisciplinary connections. Contributions by Stephan Bohle, Christian Demand, Raphie Etgar, Renate Flagmeier, Johan Holten, Leiko Ikemura, Derrick de Kerckhove, Césare Peeren, Michaela Ott, Rainer Leschke, Annett Zinsmeister.
£24.22
Arnoldsche Fritz Maierhofer: Jewellery and More!
Book SynopsisGabriela Koschatzky-Elias writes absorbingly on the life and work of Fritz Maierhofer, one of the most important contemporary Austrian jewellery artists, whose international career took off in late-1960s London. Under the sway of that throbbing city, he had arrived at a conception of jewellery and a language of forms that were distinctively his own. Maierhofer places jewellery on an equal footing with painting, sculpture and architecture. What is crucial to him is the artistic intention rather than the market value of the materials used. Maierhofer keeps coming up with new statements - using acrylic glass and precious metals in the 1970s, pewter and gold in the 1980s and, in the 1990s, aluminium, steel and computer technology while his most recent work features the new material CORIAN®. A new publication in our Art Jewellery Series, this is the first comprehensive monograph surveying Fritz Maierhofer's work from the 1960s to the present. With superlative colour illustrations and texts by a group of distinguished specialists in the field (including Ralph Turner and Graziella Folchini Grassetto). Text in German and English.
£40.50
Arnoldsche Ulla and Martin Kaufmann: Different Form
Book SynopsisUlla and Martin Kaufmann have developed their aesthetic agenda together. The techniques used by gold and silversmiths are the focal point of their work and represent the basic thematic focus of their tableware, jewellery and cutlery. It rests on their exploratory approach to materials and the diverse possibilities it provides for expression. Ulla and Martin Kaufmann have been working in their own studio in Hildesheim for nearly forty years. The two artists have thus acquired unique skills over years of experience especially the knowledge of the properties of silver and gold, their materials of choice. This profound knowledge is an essential part of the indissoluble union of design and execution. The connotations are always dual: the form of objects stems from practical considerations; is, therefore, close to ideas of functional design. At the same time, individual expression born of the artists' mastery of their craft and their exacting aesthetic standards surrounds these pieces with the aura of works of art. This book reveals the secrets and beauty of the stunning pieces made by Ulla and Martin Kaufmann. In showcasing these objects, it establishes their aesthetic permanence as timelessly practical works. This book is published to accompany the exhibition of the same title at the Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum fur Kunst und Design in Nurnberg (starting on 18th March 2010), the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus in Hanau (starting on 15th August 2010) and the Grassi Museum in Leipzig (starting on 17th November 2010).
£40.50
Arnoldsche Design Forward: Creative Strategy at the Core of
Book SynopsisIn this book Hartmut Esslinger - one of the most influential designers and thinkers, as well as the founder of frog design - explains how 'strategic design' in business and society can and must bring about positive change through innovative creativity. A key component is the strategically extended definition of design as a convergent and humanistic amalgamation of technology, the environment and the economy. For Esslinger, design has always been a key strategic discipline, which he has practised successfully in cooperation with companies such as Wega, Louis Vuitton, Sony, SAP and especially Apple, collaborating directly with Steve Jobs. Therefore in this book he sets out to establish a wide range of creative innovators as top executives, who are equally influential and occupy leading positions in economics, education and politics. Every future projection is always based on history, Design Forward also shows relevant and richly illustrated case studies taken from Esslinger's career, as well as selected works by his students at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Contents: A New Culture of Design Shaping the Design Revolution Leading by DesignTable of ContentsContents: A New Culture of Design Shaping the Design Revolution Leading by Design
£30.40
Arnoldsche Felieke van der Leest: The Zoo of Life: Jewellery
Book Synopsis"When I am working with colours, I feel like a painter. When I am working with metal, I feel like a constructor. And when I am working with toys, I feel like a child." (Felieke van der Leest). The work of Dutch jewellery and object artist Felieke van der Leest (born in 1968) expresses the very special affection that she has for animals. With unbridled fantasy she creates pieces that ostentatiously, colourfully and playfully revolve around her little friends. She combines techniques used in textile work, such as crochet, with valuable metals and plastic toy animals. Within the international art jewellery scene she has developed her own special language with which she narrates intelligent and witty stories with her animal protagonists; her pieces inevitably conjure a smile upon the faces of those who view them. Characteristic for Van der Leest is the joy in her work, which is ever present yet sometimes carried off into childhood. Serious themes in her work are also expressed, including environmental protection and human approaches to animals. The current publication comprises jewellery and objects by the renowned artist from 1996 to the present.
£25.60
Arnoldsche Anton Cepka: Jewellery and Objects
Book SynopsisJewellery and object artist Anton Cepka (1936) is one of the most important jewellery artists of the twentieth century and a protagonist of the so-called studio jewellery movement, which arose after the Second World War. Today he is considered the doyen of Slovakian and Czech jewellery designers. Whitened silver, optical glass, stones and modern acrylic glass are Anton Cepka's preferred materials. His jewellery and his objects as he himself says 'bear all the signs of today. At the same time they express the reflection of today's over-engineered world.' Movement and light unexpectedly come into play in these pieces; thus kinetic art enters jewellery art for the first time in a conceptual way. Aerotechnical, fragile futuristic forms, the colour of the whitened silver and titles such as Radar, Antenna, Airplane, Satellite and Planet reflect the current, technological advancement and reference of our times. The execution of the objects bears witness to a great craftsmanship that is essential to Cepka's objects. Text in English and German.
£40.50
Arnoldsche VETRERIA AURELIANO TOSO: Murano 1938 - 1968
Book SynopsisThe recently discovered company archive of the glass manufacturer Vetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso, founded in 1938, is now being made accessible to a wider audience in over 1,500 design drawings for the very first time. Together with the company's history and a well-researched list of models, Marc Heiremans successfully reveals the entire artistic production of one of the most significant Muranese manufacturers. Innovative and breathtaking designs by Dino Martens and his successors Enrico Potz and Gino Poli are now able to be clearly identified and dated for the first time ever; this is an indispensable reference book with many previously unknown yet now attributable glass objects in large-format colour illustrations.
£97.20
Arnoldsche Fratelli Toso Murano: 1902-1980
Book SynopsisA creative exchange with artists such as the painter Guido Cadorin or the ceramicist and sculptor Hans Stoltenberg-Lerche brought the second generation Toso Brothers to the forefront of Murano glass manufactories at the beginning of the twentieth century. After the Second World War Ermanno Toso and Pollio Perelda were among the most famous designers and continued the production of lavish series in glass, complemented from the 1950s onwards with high-quality one-offs executed mainly in the celebrated millefiori technique. This decoration consists of a multitude of tiny coloured discs, known as murrini, which are produced by melting, cooling and cutting bundled canes of glass to form a cross-section pattern. Together with Caterina Toso, renowned Murano expert Marc Heiremans looks back on and reviews the complex history of the famous glass manufactory. Well-informed texts, hitherto unpublished sketches and archive photos make Fratelli Toso Murano an essential reference work for all connoisseurs of glass.
£102.60
Arnoldsche Gisbert Stach: Jewellery and Experiment
Book SynopsisGisbert Stach's (b. 1963) monograph Jewellery and Experiment presents a multifaceted opus from twenty-five years of gold- and silversmithing. In his oeuvre the primarily conceptual artist combines jewellery with video, photography and performance. One focus of his work deals with processes of transformation and experiment - pieces disappear through chemical dissolution, and form is determined by agencies of growth in nature. Stach works with means of alienation and irritation. Ground amber serves as pigment, which he works into jewellery pieces in the form of fish fingers, sliced bread or schnitzel. A further characteristic of his work is the performative act, for example when brooches are pelted with knives. Gisbert Stach is represented in numerous museums and collections, including Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich (DE); Fondazione Cominelli, Brescia (IT); Museo de Arte Moderno, Tarragona (ES); Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami (JP); Gallery of Art, Legnica (PL); Museum of Bohemian Paradise, Turnov (CZ); Amber Museum, Gdansk (PL). Published to accompany exhibitions at Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart (DE), 9-11 November 2018, and Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein (BKV), Munich (DE) 28 February-24 March 2019. Text in English and German.
£22.40
Arnoldsche David Huycke: Risky Business. 25 Years of Silver
Book SynopsisFirst monograph on the award-winning metalsmith David Huycke. Close-ups show the meticulous granulation of the silver objects. The Belgian artist David Huycke is one of the most important silversmiths working today. He first made a name with his sets of dishes, simple design and subtle use of materials. Nowadays, he is best known for his innovative approach to the traditional technique of granulation. Huycke sets to work like a scientist or an alchemist, casting seemingly-impossible concepts in moulds, incurring along the way risks such as breakage or collapse. Eventually, his ideas and experiments are selected and elaborated into an object, where they exude a degree of stillness and have a natural implicitness, as if the work could not have been made any other way. With essays by David Huycke and Wim Nys. Text in English, German, French and Dutch.
£37.05
Arnoldsche Karl Fritsch: Ruby Gold
Book SynopsisKarl Fritsch (b. 1963), master of extravagant rings, returns with a publication that lures us deep into his world. Ruby Gold is a “no-frills” pared-back book, without pagination, without essays. Instead it comprises 81 rings from the past 20 years featuring embedded gemstones and such memorable slogans as “Fuck Off” and “Nudelsuppe” (Noodle Soup). The jewellery artist’s unmatched mastery of material and expression is apparent in every single ring, and every piece possesses tremendous energy as a result of the delicate yet archaic handling of the precious metals: Karl Fritsch carves in silver, shapes in gold, sets rubies and zirconias as a child would decorate a cake - with self-confidence and with no regard for waste. In between the detailed illustrations, Fritsch brings the rings and fingers into ironic dialogues with each other: “Ring: I am art. / Finger: Oh come on...” And: “Ring: I am a ring. / Finger: You are unwearable.” Published to accompany an exhibition at Galerie Zink, Waldkirchen, Germany, 12 September – 20 December 2020. Text in English and German.
£25.60
Arnoldsche Babetto: The Entity of Being / L’Entità
Book SynopsisThe Italian goldsmith of the “Paduan School” Giampaolo Babetto is famous for his jewellery – geometrically distinct shapes arranged into refined entities of extraordinary perfection and beauty. However, the artist’s wide-ranging spectrum also includes furniture design, silverwork, sculptures, liturgical utensils, and architecture; even his design drawings possess an autonomous character and artistic value. In addition to Christian iconography, his sources of inspiration include the fresco cycles of Renaissance artist Jacopo da Pontormo but also echo Minimalism, Neoplasticism, Neoconstructivism, and “arte programmata/cinetica.” The Entity of Being presents the first overarching survey of the virtuoso Babetto. The comprehensive catalogue section is complemented by four contributions that provide exciting insights into the work of this universal artist. Text in English, German and Italian.
£43.20
Arnoldsche Stahlrohrrevolution!: Kálmán Lengyel, Marcel
Book SynopsisThe tubular steel design of furniture designer Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) is considered an outstanding design style of the 20th-century. Yet widely unknown is the development of the first tubular steel prototype to its early series production. Breuer’s fellow compatriot Kálmán Lengyel (1900–1945), to whom this comprehensive publication is dedicated, played a significant role in this. In 1927, they founded the company Standard Möbel together, in order to organise the series production and distribution of tubular steel furniture. The development of the company and the work of Breuer, Lengyel, and the later director Anton Lorenz are depicted here in-depth with previously unpublished archive material. As a prominent furniture designer and architect, Lengyel also founded his own furniture brand, Ka-Le-Möbel, and worked as an interior designer in Paris, as well as constructed buildings in Berlin, Szeged, and Budapest. This publication expands our knowledge about the early models and highlights the life and work of the protagonists of the tubular steel revolution! Text in German.
£43.20
Arnoldsche Paula Straus: Vom Kunsthandwerk zum
Book SynopsisThe German silversmith Paula Straus (1894–1943) was a pivotal figure in shaping the “Golden Twenties” and the creative decades of the Bauhaus. Even early on, her jewellery objects and handmade items of silverware were reviewed with praise in the specialist press, and national and international exhibitions followed. In joining the design studio of the silverware factory Peter Bruckmann & Söhne, Heilbronn, in 1925, an unparalleled career began as Germany’s first woman industrial designer. The silverware she designed — coffee and tea services — for handcrafted as well as machine production stands as an example of her own original style, which is defined by a purist idiom. Her professional success and her renown as a craftswoman and designer have been completely forgotten due to the national-socialist persecution of the Jews from 1933 and her murder in Auschwitz. The time has now come to rediscover her work. With contributions by Edith Neumann, Monika and Reinhard Sänger, Joachim W. Storck, Michal S. Friedlander, Christoph Engel, and a foreword by Winfried Kretschmann. Text in German.
£31.50
Arnoldsche Aus der Fläche in den Raum: Kunst am Bau –
Book SynopsisAppreciation of the works by the German artist couple Annelies and Fred Stelzig from Besigheim in the discipline of art made for architecture has been a long time coming. To mark the 100th anniversary of them both, the town of Besigheim has made this its task. For the large retrospective, a publication is launched that focuses on the incredible breadth of their production for the very first time. Waiting to be discovered alongside wall ceramics and carpets are works in wood, glass, and enamel. Numerous contributions by authoritative experts present the personal backgrounds of the couple, trace lines of development, and highlight the material specificities of their works. Over 300 illustrations additionally provide a lively impression of the couple’s ability to be versatile yet at the same time retain continuity during their long creative period, from the 1950s to their last work in 2006. With contributions by Christian Behrer, Dieter Büchner, Christiane Fülscher, Sabine Gärttling, Inken Gaukel, Regina Ille-Kopp, Andreas Janssen, Cornelia Marinowitz, Martha Pflug-Grunenberg, and Sandy Richter. Text in German.
£31.20
Arnoldsche Dead Souls: Desire and Memory in the Jewelry of
Book SynopsisSince the late 1980s, American jeweller Keith Lewis (*1959) has been consistently tackling issues of Queer identity and politics in his figurative and narrative jewellery, including a groundbreaking series of memorial jewels addressing the impact of the AIDS crisis on himself and his community. Often witty, sometimes shocking, frequently erotic, and surprisingly moving, his jewellery is an act of remembering and witnessing, and a joyous assertion that desire and pleasure, wonderful ends in themselves, can collapse historical distance and connect the past and the present. Written by Damian Skinner and featuring four of Lewis’s artist talks documenting key preoccupations and series, this monograph surveys a bold, provocative, and ambitious body of work that deserves to be widely known.
£28.80
Arnoldsche Elisabeth Holder
Book SynopsisFrom Jewellery to Contextual Art presents the work of the artist and professor Elisabeth Holder and showcases her unique evolution. Coming from a classical goldsmithing background, she placed jewellery in relation to ancient signs and the ornamentation that emerged from them, pursuing the examination of materials in the charged arena between mastery and dialogue, and posing the fundamental question of what jewellery is and can be. This led to a paradigm shift. Jewellery was recontextualised. Illustrated with examples from fields such as architecture and nature, it becomes clear that such jewellery forms are never excessive and are at once Contextual art.Text in English and German.
£25.60
Arnoldsche Daniel Kruger: Jewellery – The unexpected meaning
Book SynopsisDaniel Kruger’s (b. 1951) new monograph Jewellery – The unexpected meaning of curious things presents his jewellery art of the last ten years. Kruger, who grew up in South Africa, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and taught at the University of Art and Design at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. He gives things an unexpected meaning. Inspired by movement and his fascination with the visual quality of materials and objects, shapes, and colours, he creates a synthesis of supposed opposites, and it is this new context that elevates these connections into something precious. Through his freedom of thought, he creates a world of objects to be contemplated, but above all to adorn the body and the human being. Text in English and German.
£33.60
Arnoldsche Sigurd Bronger
Book SynopsisHollow goose eggs, natural sponges, packaging, balloons featuring smileys, shoe soles, scientific gauges, or even his mother's gallstones the repertoire of things elevated to jewellery objects knows no bounds for the Norwegian artist Sigurd Bronger. His portable objects are turned into wearables by means of artful hanging mechanisms. For Bronger, jewellery is a means of communication. The questions he poses with his works relate to function and use, decoration, aesthetic, and beauty, and his works invite us to see things anew: does the beautiful really have to be useless and the practical aesthetically uninteresting? Through the witty yet subtle cosmos of this extraordinary artist, our own world of things is becoming a good deal greater.Text in English and German.
£31.50
Arnoldsche Gabi Dziuba Friends
Book SynopsisGabi Dziuba's jewellery is stringent, laid-back, fragile, minimalist, glamorous, and progressive. Blister packs, coins, beans, or letters are turned into wilful creations. Collaboration with close artist associates is characteristic of her work, including those with Günther Förg, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, Monika Baer, and Alexandra Bircken, whose works are included in this monograph. This highlights the openness of Dziuba's artistic approach to new trend Pop Art, Minimal Art, punk, fashion. A fascinating biography results in which the visual artist, musician, designer, and entrepreneur has freely experimented with the traditional assignment of roles since the 1970s.Gabi Dziuba & Friends is a vivid survey of her extraordinary working methods and the exhibition activities in her Berlin studio.Text in English and German.
£33.60
AVEdition Licht Kunst Licht, Vol. 4: Lighting Design for
Book SynopsisThe office of Licht Kunst Licht AG was founded in 1991 by Andreas Schulz, simultaneously at two locations in Bonn and Berlin. Today, the field of work of the office's twenty six employees covers office and administration buildings, museums and cultural buildings, representative buildings, government projects, transport infrastructure, shopping centres, hotels and restaurants, outdoor projects and private construction projects. The seventeen projects in this book show the total range of the firm's works, illustrating, amongst others, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the ThyssenKrupp Quartier in Essen or the New Gallery in Kassel. Text in English and German.
£45.00
AVEdition Thinking Tools: Design as Process - On the
Book SynopsisHow are products and everyday items created, which their owners like to use, value greatly and identify with? Things with a high practical value and that are functional, durable and beautiful. Based on the writing utensils by Lamy, the catalog shows an example of the complex design process behind creating a product, including models and sketches by Phoenix Design, Wolfgang Fabian, Sieger Design, Naoto Fukasawa, Richard Sapper or Franco Clivio.
£17.00
AVEdition Spaces and Stories: Co-Creating Scenography
Book SynopsisIt is interdisciplinary teams with complex compositions that develop and realise exhibitions. Groenlandbasel directs a network of specialists and with Spaces and Stories enables an insight into the cooperation and the dedicated efforts of a wide range of involved parties. Exhibition thinkers and exhibition makers express themselves alongside each other in essays, shorter highlights and interviews. The texts are accompanied by a diverse selection of projects by Groenlandbasel: museum developments, special and permanent exhibitions, architecture, as well as indoor and outdoor installations. With text contributions from: Dominic Huber, Director Rimini Protokoll, Zurich; Nina Gorgus, Curator Historical Museum Frankfurt; Ramon De Marco, Sound Designer Idee und Klang, Basel; Daniel Tyradellis, freelance curator, Berlin; Beat Hächler, Director Alpine Museum of Switzerland, Bern; Sibylle Lichtensteiger, Director Stapferhaus Lenzburg. Text in English and German.
£42.40
AVEdition Design Education in Germany 2023: Contribution to
Book SynopsisToday, it seems more urgent than ever to focus more attention in design on the common good. This is because we are faced with the consequences of a design methodology that is geared towards the good of individuals wherever we look. The concept of public value seems ideal as a way of focusing design education more strongly on the common good: Public value is what the public values. It provides an alternative to one-sided orientations such as the shareholder value paradigm. The iF Design Foundation 2022 has carried out the present study in order to determine the public value of design study programs at German universities. This study provides a basis for encouraging and realising a form of design education in Germany geared towards the common good. This publication also contains a list of all design courses of study at German universities.
£22.40
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£11.40
Park Books George Nelson Ein Designer im Kalten Krieg
Book SynopsisGeorge Nelson (19081986) is one of the most important American designers of the second half of the 20th century. century. His work as chief designer for the American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller has gone down in American cultural history. It is far less well known, however, that George Nelson, as an exhibition manager and designer on behalf of the American government, conceived product presentations, thematic exhibitions, trade fair appearances presented the American lifestyle in short from 1957 to 1972.This sensationally illustrated monograph now presents the unknown side of Nelson''s work in detail for the first time. The author has processed the Nelson Estate for this. He follows the designer to his early travels, sums up the formative influences and the rise to become a coveted designer. He also shows the industrially manufactured innovations that revolutionized exhibition furniture, and then describes in detail the exhibitions that Nelson realized in Sao Paulo o
£33.30
Strzelecki Books Marta KuhnWeber Puppets Pop Poetry
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£29.20
Vitra Design Museum Essential Eames: Words & Pictures
Book SynopsisCharles and Ray Eames are counted among the leading designers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for their furniture designs, the Eameses also made pioneering contributions to the fields of architecture (Eames House, Los Angeles), film (Powers of Ten), exhibitions (“Mathematica”), toys (House of Cards), graphics, and much more. Underlying all this work was a robust and compelling philosophy of design. “Essential Eames: Words and Pictures” draws from their lifetimes of speeches and writings, as well as an archive of nearly one million photographs taken by Charles and Ray Eames and their office staff over the course of four decades of work.
£20.00
Vitra Design Museum Hello, Robot.: Design between Human and Machine
Book SynopsisHello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine investigates how robotics is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives. The exhibition shows that design in its traditional function as a mediator is indispensable if robots are to become a visible reality and not just remain hidden in washing machines, cars and cash machines. The catalogue points out where we already encounter these intelligent machines and where we may come across them in the near future: in the industry, in the military and in everyday settings; at nurseries and retirement homes; in our bodies and in the cloud; when shopping and having sex; in video games and, of course, in film and literature. In a series of in-depth essays and interviews, experts such as science-fiction author Bruce Sterling or the design duo Dunne & Raby explore the question of how we deal with an environment that is rapidly becoming more digital, smarter and more autonomous. They highlight our often ambivalent relationship to new technologies and discuss the opportunities and challenges that present themselves to us as individuals and as a society in this context. In this regard, Hello, Robot. broadens the scope of the discussion to include the ethical and political questions with which we are faced today in the light of technological advances in robotics, while confronting us with the contradictions that are often found in the answers to these questions. Authors and interviewees: Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Anthony Dunne, Gesche Joost, Carlo Ratti, Amelie Klein and others.
£41.60
Sternberg Press Design in a Frame of Emotion
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£12.50
Spector Books Plakate / Posters: For Musica Viva 1997–2017
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£27.20
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd In Perfect Shape
Book SynopsisWhen you step into the headquarters of Fritz Hansen in Allerød, northwest of Copenhagen, you breathe in the spirit of a company that has made design history. The showroom, a mecca for students of design and architecture, displays pieces that have become icons, including the Series 7 chair, the Swan lounge chair, and the Lissoni sofa. A recurring theme in the history of the Danish furniture maker is its collaborations with big-name visionary designers like Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjærholm, and Piero Lissoni. With these influxes of fresh energy and an unwavering commitment to Fritz Hansen’s core values of creativity, the finest craftsmanship, and the utmost attention to even the smallest details, the company has succeeded in placing its products in the collective consciousness of humanity as well as in the offices of the President of the UN General Assembly, the Crown Plaza Hotel in Bangkok, the Banquet Hall of Oxford’s venerable St. Catherine’s College, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and private homes all over the world. With over 150 breathtaking photos, this thoughtfully designed coffee table book recounts the history of an exclusive brand, the marvellous pieces of furniture that has made it so revered, and provides examples of how a single piece of furniture can beautify an entire room or building, and fire the imagination of those who live there. Whether you’re leaving the world of Fritz Hansen in Allerød or closing this book, it will be with a wealth of new creative ideas and the knowledge that before sustainability became a trendy buzzword, Fritz Hansen was already practicing it in its purest sense, true to its motto of “Crafting Timeless Design".
£52.50
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Nino Cerruti: Fashion Icon
Book Synopsis"Fashion is balance, with a dash of theatre," was Nino Cerruti's favourite bon mot. This monograph, the most substantial on him to date, is an entertaining and gorgeously illustrated homage to the great Italian fashion designer, whose deconstructed jackets and supple fabrics revolutionised menswear in the 1960s. He took over the family business, which his father established in 1881, at the age of 20 and immediately began to make his mark. In 1965 he opened a boutique in Paris where he launched women's fashion, being the first designer to focus on pants (this at a time when many restaurants in Paris denied women entry if they were wearing pants). He dressed generations of movie stars, both on and off screen, including Jean-Paul Belmondo, Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Gere (wearing a Cerruti suit in Pretty Woman), Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, and Kathleen Turner, among others. This book showcases the elegant nonchalance and uncompromising creativity that went into his designs and follows his career as one of the great pioneers of 20th century fashion.Trade Review"A beautifully illustrated book about the fabulous career of Nino Cerruti… it is the only Cerruti monograph available and has exclusive access to the family archive." - KnightsbridgeTable of Contents8 Preface, Cindi Cook 10 Letter to My Father, Julian Cerruti 14 Foreword, Jason Basmajian 21 LIFE 27 A Creative Soul From the Start 38 Italian Roots, An International Perspective 59 CREATIVITY 74 Family Business 90 A Woman’s Touch 94 Completing the Picture 102 The Age of Excess 110 A Return to Understated Elegance 118 And Then There Was the Yellow Sweater 121 ESPRIT 147 On French Shores 150 The Stuff of Legend 160 Racing Days 167 LEGACY 188 Biography and Acknowledgements 190 Photo Credits
£33.96
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Thái Công – A Passion for Aesthetics
Book Synopsis"One of Asia’s most sought-after interior designers." — Effect Magazine When the German-Vietnamese interior designer Thái Công Quách gets down to business, he creates sumptuously furnished interior landscapes for everyone who loves the extraordinary. He cleverly combines elements of Western (pop) culture with the traditions of the Far East. For him, luxury is not merely an end in itself — people are always at the centre of everything he does. The interiors he has been designing for over 20 years bear his distinctive signature and an unmistakable style. Thái Công - A Passion for Aesthetics is the first coffee table book dedicated to Thái Công Quách’s unique form of expression. With incisive writing and captivating images, the book showcases finished interiors along with their sources of inspiration, and, most importantly, the master of staging discusses what aesthetics mean to him.Trade Review"A wealth of inspiration for true fusion design: the Vietnamese-German designer Thái Công combines the best of all worlds, from Western pop culture to Asian tradition." - PR News Wire"Through this book, Thái Công conveys a distinctive and insightful message on the conception of aesthetics." - Martin Cid Magazine"One of Asia’s most sought-after interior designers." - Effect MagazineTable of Contents6 FOREWORD 12 WHAT AESTHETICS MEAN TO ME 18 WHAT IS THÁI CÔNG STYLE? 20 T TIMELESS 24 H HARMONIOUS 28 A ASIAN 34 I IRONIC 38 C CHIC 42 O OPULENT 46 N NOBLE 50 G GLAMOROUS 54 Q QUALITATIVE 58 U USEFUL 62 A ATMOSPHERIC 66 C CHARMING 70 H HOMEY 74 PROJECTS 76 HOME OFFICE 96 PRIVATE SUITE 112 SKY VILLA 128 EAST MEETS WEST 150 FAMILY RETREAT 168 NEW VICTORIAN 194 SINGLE MAN 240 WHITE ON WHITE 266 HOW DOES THÁI CÔNG LIVE? 268 ONE BEDROOM PENTHOUSE 286 NEW ANCIENT VILLA 300 A PRIVATE RESORT 342 IN THE MAKING 348 BIOGRAPHY 352 IMPRINT
£68.00
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Jeanne Lanvin: Fashion Pioneer
Book Synopsis"This coffee table book is a visually stunning tribute and the only one available on the life and work of Jeanne Lanvin, perfect for fashion lovers and readers interested in strong female personalities." — Amica "One of the most entertaining and fascinating books to come out this season" — Hollywood Times Jeanne Lanvin was ahead of her time. The French fashion visionary and imaginative businesswoman from a poor background not only created the first designer fashion line for children - this was colourful and full of lightness, at a time when children were still dressed like adults - the first tailored men's collection and the first unisex eau de toilette, she also founded the longest-running fashion company in the world. This at times employed over 1000 people and included women's, children's and men's fashion, accessories, fragrances, furnishing textiles and decorative objects, and even its own paint factory. The self-taught Lanvin started as a hat maker with her own boutique and managed to become one of the greatest fashion designers of the 20th century with creative energy and inventiveness. She created art deco costumes for theatre and film productions, developed the legendary perfume Arpège and a special Lanvin blue, based on the shade Fra Angelico blue. This richly illustrated coffee table book is dedicated to the extraordinary life and work of this exceptional designer. Text in English and German.Trade Review"This stunning visual history spotlights Lanvin’s prodigious work, avant-garde spirit and branding savvy and will rekindle appreciation for the oldest French fashion house". - The Zoomer"This coffee table book is a visually stunning tribute and the only one available on the life and work of Jeanne Lanvin, perfect for fashion lovers and readers interested in strong female personalities." - Amica"A richly illustrated historical account of the enigmatically elegant founder of the world’s oldest couture house." - Palmer"Jeanne Lanvin - Fashion Pioneer, a new fashion book traces the history of the great couturière." - Elle Italia"One of the most entertaining and fascinating books to come out this season is a stunning biography of Jeanne Lanvin, exquisitely told by Pierre Toromanoff who has done his research well." - The Hollywood Times"Takes a closer look at the vision behind one of the fashion world's longest-running brands with a visually enriched narrative." - Robb Report Turkey
£42.46
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Schullin: Tradition Reinvented
Book SynopsisThe exquisite Nobel jeweller Schullin from Vienna is globally renowned for its unique fine art jewellery pieces crafted in-house. Among its clients and admirers are famous personalities such as Elton John, Christine Kaufmann, and Barbra Streisand. Now, author Vivienne Becker has created the first comprehensive coffee table book on the outstanding work of Herbert Schullin, delivering a long-overdue homage to the astonishing work of the jewellery designer who has been at the avant-garde of his high-calibre craft for almost half a century. She not only showcases the most significant pieces of jewellery but also takes her readers behind the scenes, revealing the creative process of the Schullin jewellery workshop. Schullin is one of the foremost jewellers in Europe, with his reputation preceding him. Daring geometric shapes define Schullin's style and regularly leave the international jewellery scene in awe. Schullin's works captivate with their clarity and brilliance in form, material, and colour. Often, a precious gemstone forms the basis of each piece, becoming the central element of the creation. The carefully curated coffee table book Schullin - Tradition Reinvented showcases the most beautiful, creative, and sought-after pieces from his always handcrafted collections, undoubtedly among the finest that goldsmithing has to offer. Jewellery enthusiasts and admirers of the Viennese traditional jeweller will be enchanted by this exquisite homage to the Austrian jewellery creator, Schullin.
£44.96
Die Gestalten Verlag Ukraine Rising: Contemporary Creative Culture
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£28.00
JOVIS Verlag Convivial Ground: Stories from Collaborative
Book SynopsisWe are all improvising. We are all making decisions. And we are all watching each other improvise. Together, we are improvising. Decisions become shared ones. We will have built this city together. Convivial Ground invites the reader to discover the work of the transdisciplinary European design-build network Constructlab piece by piece. Taking Ivan Illich’s understanding of conviviality as departure point, the essays, conversations, stories, and images in the book reflect on the specificities of collaborative practices as situated experiments, as well as on their possible roles in the creation of convivial societies. Exploring contemporary conditions of togetherness, learning, and working, the book is not a "how-to" guide, but an invitation to cooperatively write new convivial narratives.
£26.60
Jovis Verlag GmbH Berlin ist Gelb
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£43.20
Nazar Research and Cultural Institute Parviz Tanavoli Mafrashes Tribal and Rural
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£51.30
Kaph Japanese Connections - The Birth Of Modern Decor
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£34.85
Kaph Scripts And Calligraphy - A Timeless Journey
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£34.65
Kapon Editions George Petrides Interiors: essence
Book SynopsisA retrospective portfolio of the work of Greek Cypriot interior designer Georges Petrides. Design projects spanning the period 1991 to 2015 are illustrated in this album dedicated to Petrides’ work. Nearly 400 pages, almost all illustrated in full colour. George Petrides is now based in Athens, where he maintains his interior design practice, with commissions spanning Europe, America and the Middle East. Includes illustrations from 20 of his commissions across the world and includes rarely seen illustrations of interiors of private houses designed by Petrides. Parallel text Greek and EnglishTable of ContentsFlare of Tuscany 2012 Geometry Unended 2000 White & Chic 2007 Art Deco Experience 2003 Hotel by the Sea 2005 Into the Colonies 1994 Cool 2015 Orange: Colour of Happiness 2005 Shades of Grey 2010 Collector’s Heaven 2008 Mansion 2005 Le Hamam 2005 Endless View 2006 La Hacienda 1997 Le pieds-à-terre 2014 Paris, je t'aime 2010 Artist’s Retreat 2008 Country House 2002 Domestic Sophistication 2008 House of the Shooting Star 1991
£45.00
Tongji University Press Digital Nature: Decoding Zhang Zhoujie Digital
Book SynopsisThis book reflects on the relationship between digital tradition and contemporary humanism in the avant-garde design work of Zhang Zhoujie Digital Lab over the past decade. In four sections, this book provides a multi-faceted overview and reproduces Zhang Zhoujie's thoughts and methods in both his art and design. Strong technical elements characterise his creations and his pursuit of beauty by means of digital design. Notably, Zhang Zhoujie Digital Lab launched the groundbreaking furniture brand Endless Form® in 2018. Zhoujie’s creations, like the stainless-steel material he uses, provides a series of mirrors that allow us to view ourselves from multiple angles and ponder the value of human beings, humanity, and humanism in this digital age. Text in English and Chinese. Table of ContentsPreface Interview Creative Review Research Projects Brand Experiment Commission Zhang Zhoujie Digital Lab
£39.96
Kant Lucian Bernhard
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£56.25
