Objectivity: A Designer's Book of Curious Tools

David Usborne

If you admire the work of Warhol, Duchamp and Cornell, you will understand the fascination of these accidental masterpieces of the everyday. Some are the tools of vanished trades, others anonymous implements of simpler cultures, but all have been chosen for their intriguing functions and their elegant. There is something in these objects that will touch the designer, artist, inventor or collector in us all.