3deluxe: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Design

 

3deluxe is a German interdisciplinary design collective of communications, interiors and product designers and architects. This substantial book presents the group’s most complex projects over the last five years showing their skilful mastery of interplaying graphics, interior and architecture to create powerful spatial situations and graphics that resonate through all of their projects.

A History of Interior Design. Third Edition

+ CD-Rom

Now in its third edition and fully updated with the most recent examples, A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6000 years of domestic and public space.

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs

 

A Taxonomy of Office Chairs is an exhaustive visual history of the office chair. The book illustrates over 180 of the most innovative office chairs, from the 1840s to the present, includes a huge selection of technical drawings, and a series of essays by designer and design consultant Jonathan Olivares.

A Touch of Code

 

Thanks to the omnipresence of computers, cell phones, gaming systems, and the internet, a broad audience has traded its past reservations against technology for an almost insatiable curiosity for all things technical. Against this background, unprecedented new tools and possibilities are opening up for the world of design.

A-Z of 21st Century Cars

 

The first years of the twenty-first century brought many changes and challenges for the automobile industry, from the development of environmentally responsible vehicles to the consolidation of numerous small companies as part of major manufacturing groups. Written by auto expert Tony Lewin and featuring over 1500 stunning photographs...

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

 

Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913-1968) and Achille (1918-2002) are the eldest and the youngest of the three Castiglioni brothers who all studied architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. The were interested in both technology and art and in the 1940s began their original professional partnership, "Castiglioni Brothers".

Achille Castiglioni

 

This book is the first comprehensive study dedicated exclusively to the work of Achille Castiglioni, one of the great twentieth-century designers.

Affordable Exhibition Design

 

From Francesc Zamora Mola, one of the international design world’s most skilled and perceptive interior designers, Affordable Exhibition Design is a one-of-a-kind guide to imaginative, practical, and—crucially—budget-friendly exhibition design from around the world.

Alberto Pinto. Corporate

Bureaux contemporains

Présente à travers des photographies et des esquisses préparatoires, des ensembles de bureaux de prestige agencés et aménagés en Europe et aux Etats-Unis par l'architecte d'intérieur connu pour ses créations d'espaces dans des palaces et des résidences de luxe.

Aldo Cibic. Rethinking Happiness

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

The book contains four sample projects for new-style communities. Four stories told through words, pictures and suggestions about the design potential surrounding everyday living. Rethinking Happiness will be presented at the 12th International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice curated by Kazuyo Sejima.