An homage to the beauty of two wheels, Cyclepedia is a celebration of the best bicycles designed over the past century.Cyclepedia is a photographic homage to the beauty of two wheels as well as a celebration of the fastest, lightest, and most innovative bicycles designed over the past century. This book features highlights from the unique collection of architect and designer Michael Embacher’s more than 250 bicycles. This compact edition of Cyclepedia offers an expanded selection, including fifteen new bicycles from Embacher’s collection, among them designs from Alex Singer, Alan, Textima, and Puch. With a foreword by designer Paul Smith and a history of bicycle design by Michael Zappe and Martin Strubreiter, this stunning selection presents some of the rarest and most beautiful bicycles from around the world. Grouped loosely according to type, the bikes range from mountain, racing, urban, single-speed, and tandems to kids’, folding, touring, cargo, and curiosities. The selection includes classic racing bikes from the Tour de France, high-tech machines that employ the latest advances in materials science, and eccentric bikes designed for unusual uses. 
This book is a cornucopia of all that bicycle design has to offer, the ultimate gift purchase for cycling and design enthusiasts everywhere. 500 color illustrations

Cyclepedia: 90 Years of Modern Bicycle Design

Arts & Photography

Embacher, Michael

Graphic Design

Thames&Hudson

Ten sheets of wrapping paper featuring patterns inspired by the inner workings of bicycles. This set also includes twelve tear-out gift tags Inspired by avid bicycle collector and designer Michael Embacher’s Cyclepedia, a cyclist’s guide to 100 of the most significant, exciting, and curious bicycles, these ten sheets of vibrant wrapping paper feature bold, bright, and abstract designs. The set also includes twelve gift tags. 80 illustrations

Cyclepedia Gift Wrap (Thames & Hudson Stationery)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

For every way to ride, there s a bicycle to fit the need. An homage to the beauty of the bike, Cyclepedia showcases the innovations and legacies of bicycle design over the past century. Join longtime bike enthusiast and avid collector Michael Embacher for a tour of 100 bicycles, from the finest racing bikes and high-tech hybrids to the bizarrely specific (such as a bike designed to cycle on ice). Captivating photographs, detailed component lists, and anecdotal information illuminate the details that make each bicycle unique. Also including a foreword by cyclist and designer Paul Smith, Cyclepedia is the ultimate coffee-table book for devotees of the two-wheeled life.

Cyclepedia: A Century of Iconic Bicycle Design

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Chronicle Books+

90 vélos d'exception

Angerer, Bernhard

Reference

EYROLLES

Smart Move presents us with the photographer Bernhard Angerer's iconic mise-en-scene of 50 bicycles from the Embacher Collection; racing bikes with particularly subtle details; folding bikes with strikingly clever mechanisms or others that were quite spectacular failures; lovingly designed touring bikes (even if they are more satisfying to look when parked than in use); track bicycles without brakes, reduced to pure speed; bikes that even at the best attempts defy categorization - hardly any matches the popular image of a normal bicycle.Articles by Konrad Paul Liessmann, Dagmar Moser, Peter Noever, Kurt Palm, Martin Strubreiter and Michael Zappe describe the archetypal experience of riding a bike and show that bicycles do not only imply design and mechanics but are also loaded with emotions and memories. We read about the "first time," about learning and ability, about pushing oneself to the limits and succeeding, about relish for cooperation, and about the stretches of landscapes we can become acquainted with.

Smart Move- Bicycles From the Embacher Collection

Kulturtransfer GmbH

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