2100 metal tubular chairs / a typology by Otakar Mácel
Otakar Mácel
At once a comprehensive reference and a fascinating investigation, this volume presents a typology of more than 1600 photographed metal tubular chairs from the period 1925 -1940. Each chair is listed with facts about the designer, manufacturer, material and bibliographic references. An introductory essay places the European development of tubular chairs from this short period in its historical context.

Paperback / 264 pages / text English / 2006

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Chairs. Catalogue of the Delft Faculty of Architecture Collection
Otakar Mácel, Sander Woertman, Charlotte van Wijk
Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection of over 240 chairs is presented for the first time. Each object is accompanied by images and a thorough description. Also, the book offers comprehensive texts on key designs in the collection, showing the diversity of the collection which consists of world famous designs, 17th, 18th and 19th century designs, everyday household chairs and rare pieces of furniture that have never been published before. Among the designers presented are Verner Panton, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer and Droog Design. .

Paperback / text English / 272 pages / October 2008

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Patterns in Design, Art and Architecture
Petra Schmidt
If there is a new language of contemporary design, surely it is pattern. Evocative, hypnotizing, sensual, calming, jarring, soothing patterns cover, conceal, and reveal an astonishing range of emotions and are at home on a chair or lamp as they are on the facades of enormous buildings. Patterns in Design examines this new trend, illustrating it with work by design luminaries like Hella Jongerius, Tord Moontje, Michael Lin, Olaf Nicolai, and Sauebruch and Hutton. Along the journey, the reader will experience an astonishing diversity of colors, shapes, and applications, as well as new technologies like laser engraving and digital milling that promise an even bolder future for patterns.
An indispensable guide for anyone interested in contemporary trends in design, art and architecture.

Hardcover / 400 pages / text English / 2006

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Supersurfaces
Sophia Vyzoviti
Supersurfaces follows closely in the wake of the bestselling Folding Architecture and expands further on the most effective methods of visualizing three dimensional space. Folding is a valid design method that can be successfully applied, not only in architecture, but also in disciplines such as industrial design, product design and fashion design. The diversity of forms that can be achieved are limited only by the designers' imaginations. From donuts to concertinas, wraps and hinges, the exciting, innovative new ideas and concepts presented in Supersurfaces will expand the perspective of any curious creator. With its multi-discipline approach Supersurfaces is compulsory reference material for designers, students and anyone interested in designing outside of the square. Sophia Vyzoviti is an architect and designer who teaches design method at the TU in Delft.

Paperback / 144 pages / text English / 2006

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You Are Here / Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Katharine Harmon
Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deep-seated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker. Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention.
You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers, You are Here gives the reader a breath-taking view of worlds, both real and imaginary.

Paperback / 192 pages / text English / 2003

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False Flat / Why Dutch Design is so Good
Aaron Betsky, Adam Eeuwens
A timely overview of innovative contemporary design in the Netherlands, an internatonal hotbed of design creativity, featuring work by Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Marcel Wanders, Petra Blaisse, and Jop van Bennekom, among others. 1,000 images offer a visual sourcebook of Dutch design in all forms including architecture, urban planning, industrial design and graphic design.

Paperback / 400 pages / text English / March 2008
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Boek Piet Hein Eek / 1990 - 2006
Max Fraser
Together with Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders and Tord Boontje, Piet Hein Eek is among the established Dutch names in the international design world. Eek became famous for his 1990 cupboard made of recycled wood that he made in reaction to the then prevailing penchant for perfection. He wanted to show that products that are not perfect could still satisfy our feelings for aesthetics and functionality. He also wanted to make a product with limited, simple means. The combination of odd material usage and less common, but elementary production processes has become characteristic of his work.
This very comprehensive publication gives the reader insight in the working method of Piet Hein Eek and his partner Nob Ruijgrok. It shows, in chronological order, what has been achieved in the last fifteen years. A wonderful, monumental book about the work and significance of one of the most authentic and pleasant exponents of Dutch Design.

Hardcover / 448 pages / text English and Dutch / 2006

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Richard Hutten / Works in Use
Richard Hutten, Paola Antonelli, Brigitte Fitoussi
The Dutch designer Richard Hutten is barely 38 and has already made an indelible mark in the international design world. In 2008, if everything goes according to plan, a design academy carrying his name will open in Seoul. Orders for his contemporary version of the Berlage chair are difficult to keep up with, and his Domoor mug, Bronto chair and Zzzidt chair (also known as the 'skippy') remain very successful. At the Central Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, he has designed the restaurant, the garden furniture and the bookshop. Hutten's designs, or 'works in use' as he likes to call them, are sought after by celebrities and colleagues alike, and several of his colleagues testify to their strong feelings about his oeuvre in this exceptional monograph: Jeffrey Bernett, Aaron Betsky, Humberto Campana, Konstantin Grcic, Masamichi Katayama, Karl Lagerfeld, Karim Rashid, Marcel Wanders and many others. Paola Antonelli introduces.

Hardcover / 240 pages / text English / 2006

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W. H. Gispen / Serieproducten 1923 - 1960
Andre Koch
Industrieel ontwerper W.H. Gispen (1890-1981) wordt zowel kwalitatief als kwantitatief gezien als de belangrijkste industrieel ontwerper van Nederland in de afgelopen eeuw.Zijn werk is ongekend poulair en belangstelling ervoor groeit nog steeds.
Zijn stalen buismeubelen, bureaus, tafels en moderne lampen bevonden zich in collecties van de belangrijke binnen- en buitenlandse musea. Het zijn zeer gezochte 'modern classics', waarvoor bij antiquairs en handelaren hoge prijzen worden betaald. Sinds enkele jaren zijn verschillende stoelen, tafels en lampen uiterst succesvol in herproductie genomen. In deze gids worden naast een uitgebreide inleiding, een biografie, enn korte bedrijfsgeschiedenis en enkele belangrijke teksten van zijn hand, alle door Gispen ontworpen en/of geproduceerde serieproducten (1923-1960) besschreven en afgebeeld.
Deze complete gids is met zijn ca. 800 afbeeldingen en beschrijvingen in zwart-wit en kleur het onmisbare hanboek voor de verzamelaar, designliefhebber, kunsthiistoricus, antiquair, galeriehouder en handelaar.

Paperback / 241 pages / text Dutch, elaborate summary in English / 2005

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Simply Droog / 10+3 years of creating innovation and discussion
First published in 2004 to accompany the touring exhibition 'Simply Droog: 10 + 1 years of creating discussion and innovation', this updated edition presents along with earlier presented material, an extra 40 pages documenting recent activities, products and designs from 2004 and 2005. The number of products from this unique company have not only increased over the last few years to more than 200 objects, but their activities have also diversified into new fields.

Paperback / 312 pages / text English / 2006

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