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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson

Tue, 20 May 2025 10:11:28 GMT

Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson
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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence

Glenn Adamson

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce’s incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer’s own words

In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half century. Bridging numerous key art and design movements, while never belonging to any of them, Pesce’s singular practice has remained steadfastly provocative, defying convention, utility, and good taste.

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Mid-Century Modern Icons of Design

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:46:00 GMT

Mid-Century Modern Icons of Design
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Four concertina books, collected in a stylish slipcase, unfold accordion-style to feature quirky graphic representations of iconic mid-centry furniture and products, accompanied on the flip side by concise, insightful text exploring the designer’s influences and the product’s place in design history. Illustrations of iconic mid century designs, from Eames chairs to Poul Henningsen lamps and George Nelson clocks, Each volume focuses on a different area. Together they comprise the perfect guide to mid-century design.

4.8 in x 6.7 in x 1.9 in

Text By: Frances Ambler

Frances Ambler is a London-based writer and editor.

Illustrated By: Here Design

Here Design is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in London.

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The Design Book

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:25:00 GMT

The Design Book
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Discover 500 of the most innovative, influential, and enduring products from the last five centuries in one compact and highly collectable volume. The Design Book presents iconic pieces by Le Corbusier, Philippe Starck, the Eames, and the Apple design team, alongside classic objects such as the paper clip, the hurricane lantern, and the martini glass. Each entry pairs an image with a descriptive caption, providing accessible information about the product, designer, manufacturer, and history. Take an extraordinary journey through the objects that have improved our functionality, shaping our society and culture today.

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Eero Saarinen

Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT

Eero Saarinen
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EERO SAARINEN: FURNITURE FOR EVERYMAN
One of the most celebrated, prolific, and unorthodox architects and designers of the twentieth century, Eero Saarinen has become a beacon of American modernism. While famous for his sculptural and bold architecture, such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri and the TWA Terminal at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman is the first monograph to focus exclusively on his furniture designs. A self-declared “form-giver,” his furniture, like his architecture, is characterized by its sleek and expressive forms.

Taken into production by the furniture company Knoll, which was co-owned by his friend Florence Knoll, Saarinen’s designs were trend-setting and revolutionary. As many of them continue to be produced today, such as the well-known and loved Womb chair and his Pedestal Collection, they are ubiquitous. Featuring rare and never-before-seen archival photographs that span Saarinen’s technical work to his personal life, a preface by Florence Knoll, and a piece by designer and Saarinen protégé Niels Diffrient, Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman is the authoritative and comprehensive guide to the furniture designs and legacy of the modern master.

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Furniture by Architects

Fri, 7 Feb 2014 07:44:00 GMT

Furniture by Architects
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FURNITURE BY ARCHITECTS

Published December 2013, this book features an eclectic range of extraordinary and eye-catching furniture designs by leading contemporary architects. Following the tradition of great masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, these top architects and designers have extended their talents to create beautiful and unusual furniture pieces and collections for the rapidly growing and increasingly global market for designer furniture.

The book explores why, historically, so many iconic furniture pieces have been designed by architects. Think of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair and the now ubiquitous Eames Lounge and Ottoman. Essentially, the same fundamental principles used for designing extraordinary buildings can be applied at a much smaller scale to create outstanding pieces of furniture, which embrace form and function to become highly collectable objects of art.

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Machine Art

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:32:00 GMT

Machine Art
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Machine Art 1934 by Jennifer Jane Marshall

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Mattia Bonetti Drawings

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:54:00 GMT

Mattia Bonetti Drawings
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Mattia Bonetti Drawings (hardcover, 96
pages)features original sketches by the famed furniture designer. The
limited-edition publication, which is offered exclusively by the Glass
House,was published by Luhring Augustine Gallery and Calluna Farms
Press.Drawings include designs for furniture commissioned by David
Whitney and Philip Johnson for living spaces at the Glass House site and
in New York City.

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