Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is undoubtedly one of the most significant figures in 20th-century interior design. This is the first monograph of her works.
This book focuses on Hicks' use of fabric; his treatment of curtains, upholstery, bed-hangings, fabric-covered walls and other soft furnishings
Examining the use of strong visual images for architectural and product design, this source book for designers features 100 objects from Future System's personal collection, drawn from the diverse worlds of nature and technology - plants/organic formations, and the car/boat/aerospace industries.
This book looks at the work of King and Miranda who industrially manufactured prodcuts from machines to photocopiers to lighting and furniture.
Liquid Spaces explores immersive spatial design across art, architecture, interiors, and scenography, where physical environments create powerful sensory experiences. In an age of digital saturation, it argues for the renewed importance of tangible spaces that engage emotion, memory, and attention. Museums, stores, and installations blur art, commerce, and experience itself.
This book presents a focused visual and textual study of the solitary buildings of Mies van der Rohe, created through decades of engagement by Werner Blaser. Using consistent duotone photography and carefully organized materials, it objectively documents Mies’ architectural legacy, including previously unpublished images, while encouraging critical reflection on the enduring roots and principles of good architecture.
This book presents an overview of the developments in the use and planning of public spaces, and offers a detailed description of 9 cities and 39 selected public space projects from all parts of the World.
This book captures the essence of Parisian living, showcasing a range of styles from the opulent to the understated, featuring works by designers like Jacques Grange and Madeleine Castaing.
This book explores contemporary pharmacy design as a distinctive branch of commercial architecture. In a tightly regulated market where price and products offer little differentiation, pharmacies compete through spatial atmosphere and customer experience. Featuring selected examples, it highlights sophisticated, modern, and hygienic designs that foster trust and loyalty, redefining pharmacies beyond traditional chemists’ interiors into welcoming, functional environments.
The pillboxes of Britain and Ireland are among the most important military structures employed in the history of the defence of these islands. This work presents the first thorough study and classification of pillboxes and related structures, including selection posts, Seagull and concrete trenches, gun-houses and turrets, battle headquarters and spigot-mortar emplacements. The author traces the use of small, free-standing defence structures from ancient times to the present, placing the pillbox within a historical continuum and identifying its course of development.
This book presents some of the most remarkable manifestations of the idiosyncratc, eccentric glory of the human imagination.
A collection of pavillions featured at Serpentine. Featuring work by: Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Toyoito, Oscard Niemeyer, MVRDV, Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto De Moura, Rem Koolhaus & Cecil Balmond, Olafur Elisasson & Kjketil Thorsen, Frank O. Gehry, Sanaa, Jean Nouvel
Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of “design” by engaging with and departing from the concept of the “self.” This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
Temporary Pleasure traces the evolution of nightclub culture across America and Europe since the 1960s, revealing constant reinvention. From psychedelic New York and radical Italian clubs to disco, house, rave, Ibiza retreats, and Berlin techno, each chapter explores a defining scene. Through interviews, design analysis, and vivid photography, John Leo Gillen captures nightlife’s shifting cultural and architectural identities.
This book reflects intangibles-atmosphere, light, space, the effects of form and material, the interaction of nature and man, and the concepts that bind these in physical and psychological reality.
This book presents some of the most ingenious residential lofts in London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Paris, Chicago and Milan
In The Experimenters, Eva Díaz reexamines Black Mountain College as a crucible of postwar artistic innovation. Focusing on Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller, she argues their experimental, process-based teaching reshaped modern art, redefining creativity, chance, and design for subsequent generations.
This book explores topics such as the morals of city planning and affordable housing, rehabilitation and education, public vs private space, and the desire to strengthen inner-city communities.
Featuring the work of architects Atelier Bow-Wow, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and De Meuron, Ai Weiwei and more for various pavilions around the world.
Concrete is one of the most innovative agencies of the moment and has acquired worldwide fame for its startling interior designs. This book is a project realised in collaboration with a diversity of leading authors, designers, artists and photographers.
Over a period of two years, writer-photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki visited a hundred apartments, condos and suburban homes, and lovingly documented what he saw.