One of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century, Miró moved from an early style influenced by Fauvism and Cubism to develop his own unique artistic signature, characterized by abstract, challenging pictograms. The Little Book of Miró provides a detailed and thoughtful guide to the life and works of this superb artist, including a full biographical introduction, seventy thematic entries on various aspects of Miró's life and work, color reproductions of his most significant paintings, as well as an excellent chronology and bibliography.Flammarion presents its series of informative, richly illustrated guides, covering lifestyle and cultural topics. Find out everything you want to know about your favorite subject in one handy volume.• Unique thematic treatment with extensive use of key words and cross-referencing • Over 70 alphabetically organized bite-sized entries in every title • Attractive slimline format • 100 color illustrations • Summaries of key facts and dates in easy-reference tables • Exclusive buyer's guide or list of useful addresses to find out more

The Little Book of Miro

Arts & Photography

Rubini, Constance

Bodet, Frederic

History & Criticism

Flammarion

- Forty of Martin Szekely's elegant and enigmatic designs are documented in this catalog for an exhibition at the mus e des Arts d coratifs et du Design (MADD - Bordeaux) from 26 April to 7 October 2018 - All the furniture has been created between 1996 and 2018, offering an up-to-date perspective on his career French designer Martin Szekely's enigmatic furniture and objects are the result of formal structural challenges, observation, and analysis. Experimenting with both new and traditional materials, he approaches each project as a new inquiry into the essence of the built world. The designer's furniture and objects are embodiments of his meditations on the nature of balance, and are based on data concerning mass, gravity and networks of forces, most often invisible to the naked eye. For Szekely, building is the very essence of the designer's profession: "I see my practice from the builder's perspective, considering the use that will be made of my construction; this immediately involves the user, his body and his environment." What is built - which is the designer's domain unlike the artist for whom ideas suffice - calls on the history of structures and the technologies that underlie them. This catalog, for a show of forty pieces at the musee des Arts d coratifs et du Design, highlights Szekely's elegant mix of craftsmanship and high tech, raw materiality and high culture. Text in English and French. Published to accompany the exhibition at the MADD, Bordeaux, France, 26 April-7 October 2018.

Martin Szekely. Construction

Balmond, Cecil

Decorative Arts & Design

Editions Norma

•Furniture and objects by the Memphis collective have recently come back into vogue •Their original designs are being manufactured and sold around the world and their love of bright color, squiggly patterns, and laminate has influenced a new generation of designers •Includes 400 images of Memphis-designed pieces, nearly the entire output of the collective between 1981 and 1988 •Accompanies an exhibition at the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux (MADD-Bordeaux) from 6 June 2019 to 5 January 2020 During the 1980s, the Memphis group, founded by Ettore Sottsass, revolutionized the European design scene, radically reinventing the language of form and color and challenging the status quo of functionalist design. Memphis was preceded in 1976 by the Milan-based avant-garde collective, Studio Alchimia. Sottsass, who designed for Studio Alchimia, left to form Memphis in 1981 and would ultimately attract leading designers such as Andrea Branzi, Michael Graves, Shiro Kuramata, Alessandro Mendini, Marco Zanuso and Nathalie Du Pasquier to the movement. They rejected the austerity of mid-century modernists like Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier and approached the object with an unfettered, often irreverent, visual vocabulary and an exuberant sense of play applied to shape, material, and pattern. This book, the catalogue for a show at MADD-Bordeaux, looks at the genesis of the Memphis collective and the furniture, household objects, glassware, lighting, ceramics, and textiles they designed. It reproduces nearly all the pieces they produced between 1981 and 1988, around 400 works, and includes first-hand accounts by some of its founding members. Text in English and French. Published to accompany an exhibition: 'Memphis. Plastic Field' at the MADD, Bordeaux, 6 June 2019-5 January 2020.

Memphis. Plastic Field

Blanchaert, Jean

Graphic Design

* 600 pairs of Sneakers, films, archive documents... present all the facets of this iconic object, from its success with New York breakdancers to the cutting-edge technological researchBasketball shoe, tennis shoe, trainer or sneaker, regardless of the name, they have influenced the way we live, and the way we dress, since the early 20th century. Worn by millions of people the world over, sneakers have, in just a few decades, become a mass-market product that transcends gender, age, and social and cultural background. But how did a simple sports shoe make the leap from the pitch to become a genuine fashion accessory or even a piece of art? With over 600 pairs, films, archive documents, photos and personal accounts, this book presents all the facets of this iconic object, from its success with New York breakdancers to the cutting-edge technological research that goes on with that. Text in English and French.

Playground: Le design des sneakers

Tornier, Etienne

Vernay, Marie-Christine

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, the founders and directors of the leading contemporary design gallery Kreo (in Paris), have been collecting lights for 30 years. With an emphasis on Italian and French light design, their collection is the most important of its kind, comprising nearly 500 works of all kinds from the 1950s to the 1990s, and including significant groups of works by Paulin, Garrice, Castiglioni and Sarfatti. Conceived as a catalogue raisonné of this astounding collection, The Complete Designers’ Lights (1950–1990) provides an invaluable overview of light design and furniture history. It includes a discussion between Didier Krzentowski, Constance Rubini (curator of the Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs) and design critic Pierre Doze, as well as an essay by the design and art critic Alex Coles that focuses on the relationship between light design and light art, through a comparison of Gino Sarfatti and Dan Flavin.

The Complete Designers’ Lights 1950-1990

Coles, Alex

Doze, Pierre

Krzentowski, Didier

Architecture

JRP|Ringier

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