In this, the 20th edition of the leading international showcase of domestic design, guest editor and acclaimed Dutch designer Marcel Wanders surveys the world of design and identifies new, original and interesting work in the areas of furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and other products.
Leading showcase of international domestic design including more than 500 photographs with full technical data for each object and biographies of the designers whose work is featured.
"The editor has grouped together objects in catagories which illuminate current developments in design, such as home-office furniture; the work of leading architects, ranging from Norman Foster and David Chipperfield to Zaha Hadid and Kazuyo Sejima; new treatments of traditional forms like wickerware; minimalist designs; and innovations from leading companies like Apple, Philips, Sharp and Siemens".--BOOKJACKET.
Covering five major areas of domestic design, International Design Yearbook 15 devotes separate chapters to furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles, and products created over the past 18 months by well-known designers and new names from around the world. This year's selection has been made by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Ingo Maurer.As a special feature for this millennial edition, the previous editors have contributed their personal assessment of where design stands as we approach a new century.
The International Architecture Yearbook series is an invaluable and cutting edge resource featuring work that has been selected by a highly experienced panel of guest editors from across the world. All projects featured are illustrated with stunning photographs, informative plans and detailed text, as well as offering very helpful reviews from well-known and respected architectural writers and critics. It has also been divided into project type for easy reference, then broken down alphabetically by each project, making this a hugely accessible and exciting reference work.
From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.