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Iconic British designer whose books like āThe House Bookā and āBuild Your Own Furniture: Dining Roomā hold a wealth of strange information and beautiful imagery. You can find most of them on Thrift Books for under $10 hardback. Really lovely to flip through for inspiration. Just bought his āFranceā book and am very excited to dig in.
Mar 3, 2024
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šIāve seen these annual digests of the best in product innovation around forever but only started buying them recently. I grabbed one at a place in LA that had loads of dusty design books on the cheap. Not long after that, I went to a Housing Works on the UES because someone on TikTok said it had the best clothing selection. It didnāt, but they did have 2 of these for $10 each.Theyāre pure cheat code. Every good idea thatās being ripped off by contemporary artisans is in one of these - lamps bent into unnatural shapes, shelves that donāt look like they hold very much, dinnerware that youād never dare eat off of. The designs are Italian and Japanese, of course, but also Finnish, Canadian, Spanish, even American. Each edition has a different luminary as an editor: Arata Isozaki, Mario Bellini, Philippe Starck, freakinā Alessandro Mendini. Theyāre tidy, portable museums.
Aug 24, 2021
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By Jean-louis Cohen
I think its technically a textbook but amazing and entrancing to just sit and flip through.
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Such a fun read ā full of advice and stories from the creators of Sight Unseen and their tasteful friends for meaningful object gathering. Create a home for YOU! Not your Instagram followers!
