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Design Museum

    This author delves into a wide spectrum of design disciplines, from product and industrial design to fashion and architecture. Their work focuses on exploring products and their societal impact, emphasizing visual aesthetics and functionality. Through their analyses, they offer deep insights into the evolution of design trends and their historical context. Their contribution lies in the systematic documentation and presentation of pivotal moments in design history.

    Design Museum
    Fifty Fashion Designers That Changed the World
    Fifty Dresses That Changed the World
    How To Design a Light
    Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1980's
    Fifty Chairs That Changed the World
    • Design Museum

      Fifty Modern Buildings That Changed the World

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      One of two new titles in the Design Museum Fifty series published in conjunction with London's prestigious Design Museum. The history of modern architecture is as diverse as it is beautiful, varying wildly from region to region and era to era. Here Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores 50 of the most significant and striking buildings in the world, from the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to the eye-catching flair of Beijing's CCTV Headquarters. Contents include: Villa Savoye, Poissy Rockefeller Center, New York Eames House, Los Angeles Montreal Biosphere, Montreal Pompidou Centre, Paris Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Beijing Olympic Stadium, Beijing Selfridges, Birmingham ...and many more. Deyan Sudjic (Author) Deyan Sudjic is a writer, broadcaster and director of the Design Museum. Before his post at the Design Museum, he was the design and architecture critic for The Observer, the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and co-chair of the Urban Age Advisory Board. He is a leading figure in the field of architectural theory. The Design Museum (Author) The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, entertain and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to fashion, and architecture to graphics. It is working to place design at the center of contemporary culture and demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance.

      Design Museum2015
    • This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. Featured designers and style icons will include AnnaWintour, Manolo Blahnik, Annie Lennox, Princess Diana (pre divorce), Bodymap, John Galliano, BOY, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Jil Sanders, Donna Karan, Madonna, Siouxsie Sioux, Bruce Oldfield, Jasper Conran, Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana and Azzedine Alaia. With Paula Reed's lively and informative text and a wealth of fabulous photography, it is vital reading for design students, collectors of vintage, and everyone who truly loves fashion.

      Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1980's2013
      3.8
    • How To Design a Light

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      How to Design a Light tells you everything you need to know and looks at the principles and processes of designing a light. In a working case study Arnold Chan, one of the world's best-known lighting designers, traces the design and development of one of his installation at the London restaurant Hakkasan, and reveals exactly what is involved in creating a successful design.

      How To Design a Light2010
      3.7
    • Fifty Chairs That Changed the World

      • 106 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Fifty Chairs That Changed the World switches the scene indoors, taking an up-close look at the chair designs-from Thonet's elegantly workaday bistro chair no. 14, of 1870, to the more outrageous creations of present-day designers-that have had the greatest impact on the look and feel of modern interiors.

      Fifty Chairs That Changed the World2009
      4.1
    • Fifty Dresses That Changed the World

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      You don't have to be a fashionista or a design aficionado to adore this fascinating look at the power of one dress to change society.Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design.Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them on the world stage -including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di-this fun volume shares fascinating appraisals of what gave the 50 most important garments their iconic status.

      Fifty Dresses That Changed the World2009
      3.8