En croisant l'approche biographique et la forme de l'essai, ce livre donne une vision à la fois technique et accessible de l'histoire du design, à travers les yeux de l'un de ses plus grands critiques, Deyan Sudjic, directeur du Design Museum de Londres. Sans être un dictionnaire, B comme Bauhaus donne une définition érudite, bien que décalée, de notions allant d'Authenticité à Zip. Ce livre n'est pas non plus une autobiographie, même s'il offre une vision de l'intérieur, révélatrice et très personnelle de l'histoire contemporaine du design et de l'architecture.
B comme Bauhaus est un guide essentiel pour comprendre le monde qui nous entoure. Les objets abordés par cet ouvrage condensent nombre de problématiques qui ont rythmé l'histoire du design.
L'auteur en donne les clefs de compréhension de façon à la fois technique et critique, au travers de ces objets qui font aujourd'hui partie de l'imaginaire commun, comme le fauteuil Lounge des Eames ou l'Unité d'Habitation de Le Corbusier. Collecter, inventorier, classer, ces gestes humains sont ici détournés par le prisme de l'expérience personnelle.
Deyan Sudjic nous parle de ce qui fait d'un Warhol une authentique copie, de la création des identités nationales, de l'obsession de la collection. Il parle aussi de la vision de la ville depuis le rétroviseur de Grand Theft Auto V, des ornementations numériques et des raisons pour lesquelles nous accordons de la valeur à l'imperfection.
Ce livre parle des décors des films de Hitchcock et de la création des logotypes de Levis et de Coca-Coca, bref, de ce qui a créé l'univers de la mode, de la technologie, du design et du design graphique au XXIe siècle.
The only comprehensive book on the fascinating life and work of the celebrated architectural designer, John Pawson.
This visual biography brings together John Pawson's architecture, life, clients, travel, photography, design, books, and ideas. Written by Deyan Sudjic, an architectural historian and long-time friend, it explores the full scope of Pawson's life, from his Yorkshire upbringing and time spent in Japan to the fashion years and the influence of art, and provides a thoughtful and intimate insight into his life, inspirations, and work.
It features wonderfully engaging stories and anecdotes about Pawson's work with such clients as Bruce Chatwin, Calvin Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Shiro Kuramata, Martha Stewart, and many more. The book features documents, photography and ephemera, including never-seen-before images from Pawson's personal and professional archives - richly illustrated, this is the ultimate book on John Pawson.
A comprehensive survey on a leading designer behind the Made-in-Italy success story Edited by the former director of the London Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic, this multiauthored volume offers a detailed, broad account of more than 50 years of works by Italian architect and designer Antonio Citterio (born 1950) in the field of industrial design. Working for companies such as Ansorg, Arclinea, Axor-Hansgrohe, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Hermès, Iittala, Kartell, Maxalto and Vitra, since the 1980s Citterio has been admired for his combination of elegant low-key modernity and painstaking attention to detail.
This volume, the most extensive to date on Citterio, is richly illustrated with images of products and details as well as archival photographs-some personal, others that take us behind the scenes to glimpse the creation of products that have since become icons of contemporary design-and original sketches by the designer.
Écrit par l'éminent historien du design Deyan Sudjic, le livre comprend des oeuvres de designers de renom tels que Dieter Rams, Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass et Richard Sapper, et s'appuie sur la renaissance croissante de l'intérêt pour le monde analogique. Couvrant le son, la vision, la communication et l'information, Analogue: A Field Guide est un voyage évocateur à travers une époque de design innovant, présentant 250 objets classiques, des radios aux platines, des téléviseurs aux appareils photo et des machines à écrire aux téléphones. Il passe en revue toutes les marques emblématiques ainsi que les évolutions technologiques qui ont rendu ces appareils des éléments incontournables du quotidien.
The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the citybr>br>We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.>
Le design est partout.
Les objets nous accompagnent en toutes circonstances et nous séduisent, nous inspirent, nous intriguent. Deyan Sudjic, directeur du Design Museum, livre dans cet essai une réflexion critique et pleine d'humour sur le design et son rôle. Il décode les mécanismes à l'oeuvre dans la séduction exercée par un meuble, un équipement électronique, un vêtement... Il revient sur les événements clés de l'histoire du design industriel, sur ses relations avec le monde de l'art, et n'hésite pas à égratigner au passage des figures iconiques de la discipline ! Truffé de références historiques et d'exemples du quotidien, le texte de Deyan Sudjic offre avec simplicité et pertinence une manière inédite de comprendre le monde qui nous entoure et la société de consommation dans laquelle nous vivons.
The Edifice Complex explores the intimate and inextricable relationship between power, money and architecture in the twentieth century. How and why have presidents, prime ministers, mayors, millionaires and bishops come to share such a fascination with grand designs? From Blair to Mitterrand, from Hitler to Stalin to Saddam Hussein, architecture has become an end in itself, as well as a means to an end. This is a book of genuine timeliness, throwing new light on the motivations of the rich and powerful around the world - and on the ways they seek to affect us.
The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private collections.
This is a history of architecture, politics and power. Boris Iofan (1891-1976) made his mark as Stalin's architect, both in the grand projects he achieved, such as the House on the Embankment, a megastructure of 505 homes for the Soviet elite, and through his unbuilt designs, in particular the Palace of the Soviets, a baroque Stalinist dream whose iconic image was reproduced throughout the Soviet Union. Iofan's life and designs offer a unique perspective into the politics of twentieth-century architecture and the history of the Soviet Union
This an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation of national identities. It's about Hitchcock's film sets and why we value imperfection. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art.'A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic' - Evening Standard
Shiro Kuramata (1934-91) was a truly exceptional designer of furniture and interiors. Many of his poetic, precise and unique pieces, like the expanded-metal-mesh How High the Moon Armchair and the acrylic, aluminium and paper-flower Miss Blanche Chair, are still highly prized, collected by museums like MoMA and the V&A and sold at auction. Sadly, however, most of the hundreds of interiors he designed no longer exist, and can only be glimpsed in photographs or described by those who saw them.
This combination of the precious and the disappeared is appropriate for a designer like Kuramata, whose work was neither modern nor nostalgic, neither western nor Asian, but which has a remarkable creative power as well as a sense of endless invention. This compelling and highly influential work is documented here in this beautiful monograph.
The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso.
Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and lighting that continue to inspire design minds today with their flamboyance and use of color.
Author Deyan Sudjic (Director of London's Design Museum) does not limit his narrative to an examination of Sottsass' iconic designs. Though a native son of Italy, Sottsass cast a shadow of influence on the entire world, traveling extensively over the course of his life and interacting with some of the 20th century's most iconic figures, including Picasso, Hemingway and Allen Ginsberg. Sudjic's writing, complemented by unpublished personal photographs from Sottsass' archive, offers a unique view of Sottsass from the perspective of the world that surrounded him, recounting anecdotes of encounters between the designer and his famous contemporaries. The result is a unique and comprehensive portrait not only Sottsass but of the last 100 years of design in Italy and around the world.
Features anecdotes of his encounters with the biggest creatives of the time, and details of his influences and inspirations, documenting the contemporary design scene both in Italy and abroad.
