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Living with Charlotte Perriand
Charlotte Perriand (24 October 1903 - 27 October 1999) was a French architect and designer. Her work aimed to create functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps in creating a better society. In her article "L'Art de Vivre" from 1981 she states, "The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living-living in harmony with man's deepest drives and with his adopted or fabricated environment." Charlotte liked to take her time in a space before starting the design process. Her approach to design includes taking in the site and appreciating it for what it is. Perriand connected with any site she was working with or just visiting she enjoyed the living things and would reminisce on a site that was presumed dead. She is well known for the playful way in which she mixed and superposed materials and styles in most of the furniture she created during her career. Nonetheless, one of the most essential influence on her entire work has been the Japanese craftmanship that kept on inspiring her.
Laffanour: Downtown Style
A visual celebration of the French gallery that helped popularize furniture by architects from Le Corbusier to Ron Arad Over the last 40 years, the Laffanour Galerie Downtown Paris, founded by François Laffanour, has cemented a reputation for itself as a major reference point in 20th-century European and American design. Laffanour popularized what was once a niche field: furniture made by architects. Since its opening in the early 1980s, the gallery has organized numerous thematic and monographic exhibitions on several iconic designers, notably Charlotte Perriand, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass, Ron Arad, Isamu Noguchi, Choï Byung, Pierre Jeanneret and Jeanne Royère. Downtown Stylecelebrates Laffanour's several decades of top-quality curation. An interview with François Laffanour conducted by French design historian Anne Bony is featured alongside countless images from the gallery's exhibitions in which entire living spaces were intricately recreated. The book also features images of Laffanour's booths at internationally renowned art fairs.
The Fashion Insiders' Guide to Paris
The Fashion Insiders’ Guides are carefully curated compendiums of the current hotspots, classic haunts, and hidden gems of the world’s greatest fashion destinations. A former Parisian living in New York, French Vogue correspondent Carole Sabas was often approached by friends and colleagues on their way to Paris for Fashion Week, looking for the best place for a quick facial, early morning yoga, or to meet a friend for a drink. So many people asked, in fact, that she produced a small guide filled with advice, which she gave out for free. Requests for more information and other cities came pouring in. Abrams is now making Sabas’s Paris and New York guides available to everyone, with expa...
Electrifying Design
An unprecedented survey of modern lighting design foregrounding its materials, innovators, and far-reaching influence Offering the first comprehensive history of lighting design from the 20th and 21st centuries, Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting explores how lighting has been integral to the development of modern design both in terms of aesthetics and technological advances. This fascinating book outlines the key aspects of lighting as a unique and creative artistic discipline and examines themes such as different typologies, the quality of light, and the evolution of the bulb. A series of essays by Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss showcase lighting designs from different time per...
Ron Arad
Even among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad stands out for the versatile nature of his work & his daredevil use of materials & technology. This book examines his work, and includes an interview with Arad plus plates, sketches and renderings of over 150 objects and spaces.
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Olivier Dwek
Architect Olivier Dwek celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his firm with a new book highlighting his signature style of modern European luxury. A virtuoso of volumes and a master of light, Brussels-based architect Olivier Dwek shapes buildings and interiors that are inhabited by a timeless aura. Fluid lines and varied perspectives define monumental structures, enhancing details and contemporary art pieces in both private and public spaces, all imbued with serene elegance. Ranging from Greek vacation homes to Parisian townhouses, this volume celebrates the refined approach that marks Dwek's style while taking the reader on a journey across Europe and the world. Vibrant photographs showcase Dwek's fascination with textures and new uses for materials developed in collaboration with artists and artisans. His skilled use of light, his innate sense of symmetry, and his effortless merging of architectural elements with design details are all apparent in this volume. With texts by architecture expert Philip Jodidio, this printed journey through Dwek's buildings and interiors is bound to seduce architecture connoisseurs and curious spirits alike.
Disseny de Mobiliari
Catalunya ha estat reconegut com un territori de producció de mobles. Des dels primers moblistes als actuals dissenyadors i empreses s'ha fomentat el disseny, la producció i comercialització de mobiliari. Tot i això, no es troben publicacions que tractin de l'estat actual i en català. Guillem Ferran, coordinador de disseny de producte a l'Escola Llotja, proposa una guia formada de tres capítols: dades del sector, continguts i procediments, per tal de dissenyar projectes de disseny de mobiliari. Tota una eina per a convertir-se en dissenyador de mobiliari.
