Designer A-Z

Eileen Gray - Intimate Architecture

HYX

Eileen Gray was one of the most emblematic figures of the art deco and modernist movements, having developed a new and intimate form of architecture over her 50-year career. Through her projects,...

Jasper Morrison - The Hard Life

Morrison, Jasper
Lars Müller Publishers

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? The...

Studio O+A

Orpilla, Primo

Moormann Katalog Vol. 4: Hier - Here

Erwan Bouroullec - Maarten Van Severen Chair Mvsc01

2016

The Maarten Van Severen Chair (MVSC) was founded in 2015 by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at University College Ghent and the Maarten Van Severen Foundation with the aim of conveying the...

Børge Mogensen - Möbel mit Format

2016

Børge Mogensen (1914-1972) war einer der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Vertreter des dänischen Möbeldesigns. In mehr als 30 Jahren schuf er eine Vielzahl an Qualitätsmöbeln, von denen einige...

Life And Design Of Aino Aalto (Japanese Edition)

2016

Japanes text only, 250 Illustrations

Designing Design

Hara, Kenya
2015

Stellvertretend für eine neue Generation von Designern in Japan erweist der 1958 geborene Kenya Hara seinen Mentoren Reverenz, wenn er lange vernachlässigte japanische Symbole und Bilder in seine...

Bookcatalogtest

Moritz Tramer

Based on the 'Bücherkatalogtest' published by Swiss psychiatrist Moritz Tramer in 1953, this personality test uses 432 book titles to determine the character of test subjects. The objective is to...

Watercolours by Finn Juhl

2015

Finn Juhl (1912-1989) is known and loved in Denmark and around the world for his sophisticated and sculptural furniture – but few people are familiar with his masterly watercolours. Throughout most...

Alexander Girard - A Designer's Universe (Deutsche Ausgabe)

Alexander Girard (1907-1993) war einer der bedeutendsten modernen Textildesigner und Innenarchitekten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er arbeitete eng mit Designern wie Charles Eames und George Nelson...

Offecct Voices: Furniture, Passion and Entrepreneurs

Tingdal, Kurt; Englund, Anders; Offecct

In 1990, armed with some personal savings, an Alfa Romeo toolbox, and no shortage of enthusiasm, two Swedish entrepreneurs embarked on the creation of a new furniture company. Tow decades later,...

Wim Crouwel - Modernist

Huygen, Frederike

A new, detailed monograph about Wim Crouwel: graphic designer and exhibition designer who defined the look of post war Holland with his studio Total Design. His modernism was reflected in countless...

System 180 - Bauwelten

Steiner, Jürg
2010

Jürg Steiner hatte das Glück, sich in seiner beruflichen Laufbahn immer wieder mit der Frage befassen zu können, was der Mensch braucht, um sein Leben nach eigenen Wünschen und eigenem Können...

Ian Johnson

Johnson, Ian
San Francisco 2015

San Francisco based artist Ian Johnson has been busy since his 2008 monograph Beauty is a Rare Thing. Six solo shows and a group exhibition later, his work has evolved while remaining just as...

Dieter Rams - Less and More

Gestalten Verlag, Berlin

Das Referenzwerk zu Dieter Rams, der wie kein Zweiter das deutsche Produktdesign der Moderne prägte und zu globaler Wirkung brachte. Nach der Devise "weniger, aber besser" orientierte er sich immer...

A Book From deValence

2015

The first publication about the work of the French graphic design studio deValence, this book examines their most recent works since 2012, as well as their long-term collaborations with artists...

Studio Makkink & Bey Dexter & Sinister

2015

The national public commission for design furniture and arrangement of the International University Research Centre of Orléans (Hôtel Dupanloup) was entrusted to Dutch designer Jurgen Bey, who...

Ted Noten - Ubiquist

Allen, Jennifer; Staal, Gert; Ex, Sjarel
2015

Ted Noten is one of today’s most original, radical designers. His transparent acrylic bags – containing objects ranging from animals, jewels and cocaine to pistols – have seduced collectors,...