Most people spend more time with their cars than their spouses or children. With an artistic sensibility, Automobility examines the past, present, and future of the car, the modern invention that brings us together and literally drives us apart. The text of this mammoth publication is in German, but anyone can understand, learn from and laugh at the avalanche of curious imagery in this book. Dimension: 8 ½ x 11 ¼ inches, over 600 mostly large format color reproductions.

Automobility, What Moves Us

Engineering & Transportation

Kries, Mateo

Automotive

Vitra Design Stiftung

<p>With his visionary, colorful home furnishings, Danish designer Verner Panton sought ways to fashin a stylistically uniform, imaginative interior. His plastic Panton chair, a one-piece cantilevered design made in candy-apple colors, has been in production continuously since 1968, and its sinuous shape is recognizable to millions who have never heard the designer's name. By the early sixties, he had already helped establish a color spectrum that dominated home design until the mid seventies. This first comprehensive monogram on Panton's work also includes his "Phantasy Landscape," a foam rubber room of womb-like organic shapes designed for the Visiona II exhibition at the 1970 Cologne furniture fair. A must-have for lovers of late-twentieth century furniture and "interior landscape." Dimension: 9 x 12 inches, over 500 color reproductions, CD-ROM included.</p>

Verner Panton - The collected works

Arts & Photography

Vitra Design Museum

Verner Panton

Mathias Remmele

Architecture

Issey Miyake is regarded as a leading fashion designer. He explores the relationship between body and clothing, sculpting the human frame with new modern day fabrics, creating his trademark dynamic shapes and forms. A-POC (A Piece of Cloth) is the result of the collaboration between Miyake and Dai Fujiwara and their quest to revolutionize the process of clothing production. Together they have completely re-thought the process, from the use of new generation raw materials, to the machines used, to the fitting of the wearer. The "tubes" of fabric produced in the A-POC factories, hold complete clothing ensembles waiting to be cut out, thus literally allowing the fabric to be cut and fitted straight on to the wearer. A new concept of clothing manufacture for the fashion industry in the 21st Century.

A-Poc Making: Issey Miyake and Dai Fujiwara (English and German Edition)

Miyake, Issei

Fujiwara, Dai

Reference

<p>in a career that spanned six decades japanese american artist isamu noguchi (1904-1988) produced a groundbreaking body of work that encompassed multiple disciplines to break down the barriers between sculptural art and functional design. "isamu noguchi - sculptural design" celebrates this legacy by chronicling the exhibition of over 75 of noguchi's works into a series of dramatic installations conceptualized by renowned theater designer and artist robert wilson. this book includes Noguchi's portrait busts unique stone sculptures and set designs for the martha graham dance company as well as his iconic furniture designs and akari lamps. 315 pages 10" x 11.2" b/w and color pictures hard cover</p>

Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design

Sculpture

joe colombo was one of the most notable and successful designers of the 1960s. in 1971 colombo died of heart failure at the height of his career. this book is the first major title on colombo in a number of years. based on an exhibition developed by the vitra design museum in conjunction with studio joe colombo in milan the end result is an exceptional work containing images and a number of excellent essays including a notable one by his assistant ignatzia favata.I remember the last title on colombo in paperback. we sold out quickly and were never able to get one for our library. get one while they last- colombo conceptually and production-wise is one of the greats. pp. 301to see more from joe columbo here.

Joe Colombo: Inventing the Future

The furniture designs of Charles and Ray Eames continue to inspire questions. Why is their furniture still in production, still in demand, inspiring and timeless? Combining Charles's architectural training with Ray's passion for painting and sculpture, their talents melded to create furniture that is at once practical and playful yet with an eye towards durability of material and the timelessness of design. These objects reveal the expressive possibilities of modern components while accommodating fundamental human needs. All of these "classic" Eames elements are lusciously produced in this new publication, which, amazingly, was designed as a sales tool to the trade. Mixed with personal snapshots, ergonomic line drawings, and stunning color images of the furniture in actual contemporary settings, this is the one Eames publication to have-simple, but completely encompassing.

Vitra.Eames

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