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Vendor:Laurence King
History of Modern Design (Second Edition)
David Raizman Softcover | 22.48 x 3.81 x 30.23 cm | 432 pp Laurence King | 2010 | 9781856696944 This insightful, wide-ranging book surveys the applied arts and industrial design from the eighteenth century to the present day, exploring the dynamic relationship between design and...- £27.50
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Vendor:V&A
The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design
Tristran Hunt Hardcover | 19.43 x 3.05 x 23.37 cm | 256 pp V&A | 2019 | 9781851779727 In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell...- £20.00
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Vendor:Distanz
Best of German Interior Design
Hardcover | 24.28 x 4.93 x 29.21 cm | 376 pp Distanz | 2017 | 9783954761807 Best of German Interior Design introduces the reader to the fifty most renowned German designers and fifty leading German manufacturers of home interior products. It portrays a scene...- £30.00
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Vendor:Prestel
Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design Classics
Esther Choi Hardcover | 20.8 x 2.46 x 28.42 cm | 256 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791384726 It started as a series of dinner parties that Esther Choi - artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook - hosted for friends after she stumbled across an...- £15.00
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Vendor:Jovis
Original Resopal: The Aesthetics of the Surface
Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.91 x 30.48 cm | 192 pp Jovis | 2006 | 9783939633044 German company Resopal have been pioneers in the manufacture and design of plastic laminates since their invention in the early twentieth century. Like Formica in the U.S., the...- £10.00
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Vendor:Abbeville Press
A Century of American Toys and Games: The Story of Pressman Toy
Hardcover | 33.78 x 2.79 x 26.16 cm | 256 pp Abbeville Press | 2022 | 9780789214447 From Chinese checkers to the Wheel of Fortune board game, this is the story of how one family business shaped the way Americans play. Abundantly illustrated with new colour...- £25.00
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Vendor:Park Books
Dust Free Friends
6a architects Softcover | 21.59 x 1.52 x 15.24 cm | 80 pp Park Books | 2015 | 9783038600077 You may have braved IKEA, where the promise of a brighter and better living space comes sealed in a cardboard box. But what do we lose...- £15.00
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Vendor:British Library
Inventing the 21st Century
Stephen van Dulken Paperback | 157 pp | 15.9 x 23.5 cm British Library | 2010 | 9780712358026 Surprise and intrigue are rife in this fascinating history of modern inventions. Although we are only ten years into the 21st century, the number of new patents...- £7.50
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Vendor:Prestel
Façades: A Visual Compendium of Modern Architectural Styles
Hardcover | 18.75 x 3.66 x 24.13 cm | 448 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791385174 This book presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative contemporary building façades. A building's façade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of...- £12.50
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Vendor:Batsford
The Art of the Tea Towel
Marnie Fogg Hardcover | 18.8 x 1.7 x 25.07 cm | 144 pp Batsford | 2018 | 9781849945028 A visual history of tea towel design, from the 1950s to today. Both practical and beautiful, the tea towel has over the last century established itself firmly...- £12.00
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Vendor:Welbeck Publishing
Chairs: 1,000 Masterpieces of Modern Design
Charlotte Fiell & Peter Fiell Hardcover | 17.78 x 5.08 x 22.86 cm | 784 pp Welbeck Publishing | 2023 | 9781802791006 From Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso, Chairs introduces over 1,000 groundbreaking innovations by the world's greatest designers. Tracing the history of the modern chair from...- £22.50
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Christopher Dresser: Design Pioneer
Max Donnelly Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm | 144 pp Thames & Hudson | 2021 | 9780500480700 Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer....- £8.50
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Vendor:MIT Press
Making Design Theory
Johan Redström Hardcover | 22.86 x 16 x 1.52 cm | 192 pp MIT Press | 2017 | 9780262036658 A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design. Tendencies toward “academisation” of traditionally practice-based fields...- £15.00
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Vendor:Goff Books
Craig Frazier: Drawn
Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 300 pp Goff Books | 2024 | 9781957183916 Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier’s illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated...- £25.00
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Vendor:Phaidon
Vitamin Green
Joshua Bolchover Hardcover | 26.04 x 3.49 x 30.48 cm | 352 pp Phaidon | 2012 | 9780714862293 Vitamin Green looks at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the...- £30.00
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Vendor:BIS Publishers
Sketching: The Basics
Koos Eissen & Roselien Steur Softcover | 18.92 x 2.03 x 25.78 cm | 204 pp BIS Publishers | 2019 | 9789063695347 Sketching: The Basics concerns the study of drawing form for designers. It is aboutlearning to draw efficiently by employing different techniques, both manual and digital. Drawing...- £17.50
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Vendor:Niggli
Design Basics: From Ideas to Products
Gerhard Heufler, Michael Lanz & Martin Prettenthaler Softcover | 16 x 1.5 x 21 cm | 244 pp Niggli | 2019 | 9783721209884 Design Basics offers a professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience as...- £15.00
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Vendor:Prestel
Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design (Non-mint)
Charlene Prempeh Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.31 x 24.41 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2023 | 9783791388472 Previously marginalised, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a century of groundbreaking work by...- £12.50
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Rudolph de Harak Graphic Designer: Rational Simplicity
Richard Poulin Hardcover | 22.1 x 3.81 x 30.73 cm | 408 pp Thames & Hudson | 2022 | 9780500025383 Rudolph de Harak (1924–2002) is one of the most influential modern graphic designers of the mid-20th century. This beautifully produced, comprehensive monograph is the first...- £35.00
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Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture
Louise Harpman & Scott Specht Softcover | 14 x 2 x 15 cm | 256 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2018 | 9781616896560 The ubiquitous plastic coffee cup lid combines indentations, protrusions, tabs, and score lines that can be pinched, pulled, pushed, punctured, and tucked...- £10.00
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