Dish: International Design for the Home
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000W7F4YS |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Works range from Monica Nicoletti's "Place Holders" moving boxes that serve as transitional furniture to Matali Crasset's "Phytolab" that combines plants and plastic in a bathroom project. They explore materials, from Sara Unruh's chemically treated silk fabric to Anette Hermann's rubber and metal chair, in which the user becomes part of the construction. A foreword by Susan Yelavich and essays by experts in making, selling, and critiquing contemporary design offer insights into the conceptual, aesthetic, functio
Susan Yelavich is a curator and writer, and the author of Design for Life .
Amazon Customer said a compelling look at design's next generation. This collection of thirty young designers' work is inspiring. Their ideas are diverse, compelling, and innovative, just what you hope a showcase like this would be. Each designer is represented by a short statement and a handful of photographs of project, and this is accompanied by a handful of essays and designer biographies too.The connective thread through this talent is that the designers are women. That is as light a touch as the editor seemed. "Beautiful and informative" according to Fred Antares. I had the opportunity to read this as I was stuck at a party and it was on the coffee table What a treasure! While I had some very basic knowledge of the impact of shape and color in domestic spaces, this book clarified that which I thought I already knew then expanded upon it tremendously after establish a solid vocabulary.A great book for any homeowner or anyone interested in design and interior spaces.
Müller is a consultant who head-hunts designers for industry; her eight-paragraph introduction notes that the designers chosen (born all over, but working mostly in New York and Europe) do work that breaks ground in "fabrication, material, or concept." Nicolette Brunklaus contributes "Blonde curtains" (not hair, but silk imprinted with a digital image of hair); Anette Hermann made the "Glory light blanket" of clear silicone and optic fibers; Marre Moerel's "Barnacle wall tiles and towel hooks" look like lovely white bulbous coral growths. With that clarified, the contributions from the 30 young artists represented here come through as great design bracingly packaged. From Publishers Weekly There's no good way to do it, but the title of this book should somewhere reflect that the exhibition for which it is the catalogue (and from which it takes its title), was conceived "to promote women in the field of industrial design," and thus includes only women designers. No one her