Design August 2015

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Ted Noten Ubiquist nai010 publishers 2015 ISBN 9789462082328 Acqn 25137 Hb 22x29cm 232pp 250ills 220col 31 Ted Noten is one of todays most original, radical designers. His transparent acrylic bags containing objects ranging from animals, jewels and cocaine to pistols have seduced collectors, confused the establishment, inspired fellow artists and challenged students all over the world. Beauty and violence, perfection and decay: these are themes that have never been absent from his oeuvre since he made his famous pendant featuring a mouse wearing a pearl necklace. This book illustrates the pitiless precision of each separate design. At the same time it documents the immense playing field in which Noten operates.

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DESIGN & FASHION


Bruno Munari - The Triangle Corraini Editore 2014 ISBN 9788875701291 Acqn 24845 Pb 16x16cm 108pp 110ills 12.50 From the vegetable structure of the coconut to the diagram of human settlements by Le Corbusier, one can frequently find the shape of the equilateral triangle in many different occurences, both in a natural environment and in artificial works. This book by Bruno Munari is about the many uses of this evocative shape throughout the centuries.

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Bruno Munari - The Circle Corraini Editore 2014 ISBN 9788875700409 Acqn 24846 Pb 16x16cm 88pp 110ills 12.50 God is a circle whose centre is everywhere but whose circumference is nowhere. Circle means perfection, cyclicity, superiority of the divinity, but also instability and movement. In nature soap bubbles are spherical and internal trees rings are circular; the legend tells that Giotto drew a perfect O, while perfection is tangible on Michelangelos 'Tondo Doni' and Botticellis 'Vergine col Bambino'. King Arthurs knights were pairs around a round table, and nowadays people sit in circle to make a decision or watch a show. Bruno Munari selects and describes in this little, extraordinary encyclopaedia, several uses of this fascinating and mysterious form, instable and hieratic at the same time.

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Bruno Munari - The Square Corraini Editore 2014 ISBN 9788875700645 Acqn 24847 Pb 16x16cm 90pp 110ills 12.50 The square has much importance in man's life: a lot of churches, monuments, games (like chess), fonts are square-based. But man seems not to realize it... one more time Bruno Munari amazes us with an historical, anthropological, scientific square book.

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European Decorative Arts MFA Publications 2015 ISBN 9780878468225 Acqn 25400 Pb 18x23cm 224pp 126col ills 17.50 The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is full of sumptuous surprises. The objects range from an opulent automaton to a richly wrought crozier, and vary in scale from a saltcellar the size and shape of a small crustacean to the wood panelling of an entire dining room. Their dates of manufacture span more than a thousand yearsthe earliest made shortly after the fall of the Roman Empire and the most recent in the computer ageand bear evidence not only of cultural exchange among European countries but also of the revival of ancient motifs and of contemporary trade with India and China. Presented here with an introduction to the topic and individual texts on each piece, these diverse works are organized chronologically and by stylistic movements to highlight their hidden histories.

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5 Year Diary - Green Cover The Ice Plant 2015 ISBN 9780989785938 Acqn 25287 Hb 9x17cm 376pp 19 Tamara Shopsin's classic 5 Year Diary is now available with a green cover. Designed by Shopsin--whose illustration work is regularly featured in The New York Times--and produced by The Ice Plant, the pint-sized 5 Year Diary helps you keep track of the next 60 months of your life in just a few lines a day. Each page of the diary is devoted to one day of the year and subdivided into five sections (each with its own space for notes), so that, as time goes by, past entries can be read as the new ones are written. Handsomely clothbound with a red ribbon bookmark, the diary can be started on any day of any year--even a leap year. In the back of the diary are pages to record the books you've read and the places you've travelled. As New York Magazine's Kendall Herbst noted, the 5 Year Diary is an ideal gift for anyone, anytime, as well as the perfect way to "trace your life's highlights and trim out the minutiae Think of it as a sort of CliffsNotes to your life."

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