"A great gift for design aficionados and interiors addicts." -- Irish Examiner. With expert analysis, great photography, and a huge selection of familiar and unusual objects, this book explains what truly makes a design great and reveals the hidden stories behind the everyday things that surround us. The author, a writer and journalist specializing in design, has chosen 101 objects that have had a major influence on the world of design history, delving into the makers, the designers, and developments in production and style that made these pieces into design classics. The text incorporates design sketches, portraits of many well-known and some unknown designers, as well as numerous exciting anecdotes from the sewing box of design history. The selection of designers includes, but is not limited to, legends such as Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard and other protagonists of classical modernism. Also here are post-war designers such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin, and Gae Aulenti, and postmodern and contemporary designers such as Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders, and Konstantin Grcic. This book provides an in-depth and informative overview of 20th-century design - and a glimpse of the first true classic objects of the 21st century.

Author: Silke Pfersdorf
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 3.9lbs
Size: 12.05h x 9.45w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9783961714179

About the Author
Silke Pfersdorf (b.1963, Hanover), is a long-time journalist, columnist, and author, and publishes regularly in numerous popular magazines. She is known, among other things, for her column Schätzchen, wo kommst du denn her? in Living at Home, in which she highlights a design classic every month. Heide Christiansen is a writer, creative director, photo producer and picture editor in Munich. Finding the perfect look for a story, no matter how much effort it takes - that's what Heide Christiansen is all about. Heide worked as a freelance photo editor for many important German publishers and won international awards for her films for the production company stolzandfriends. Her most recent publications as author and photo editor are: Christmas in the Mountains from Callwey Verlag; Das grosse Callwey Wohnbuch from Callwey Verlag; BAYERN from teNeues Verlag.