Swarovski Crystal Palace

Swarovski Crystal Palace
Author: Clarissa Hupertz
Publisher: teNeues Digital Media GmbH
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9783832794163

Launched in 2002, Swarovski Crystal Palace is a shimmering series of sculptural pieces that had its debut at the Milan Furniture Fair. Through a brief history of Swarovski crystal we learn of its refined tradition as well as its bold vision for the future. Along the way, we delve deeper into the Crystal Palace designers.

Limited Edition

Limited Edition
Author: Sophie Lovell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 303460890X

Limited Edition is the new buzzword in furniture design. The demand for unique pieces is steadily increasing. With prototypes, one-offs and limited product lines, designers are celebrating a cult of individuality for all price classes. Furniture prototypes have always been an element of the industrial design process, but now they are being brought from the workshops and presented to the public as embodiments of one of the most exciting creative fields of our age. In the global village with its standardized commodities, exclusive one-offs with an artisanal flavor are turning into coveted objects. Limited furniture series satisfy the collector’s thirst for objects that dissolve the boundary between art and design. Limited Edition pursues this new phenomenon and uncovers its background in meticulous investigative essays based on the author’s ongoing interchange with key designers, gallery owners, auctioneers and manufacturers. With a rich selection of magnificent images and an attractive layout, it presents the best and most breathtaking pieces by the leading designers.

A Century of Austrian Design

A Century of Austrian Design
Author: Tulga Beyerle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3034608896

A "Century of Austrian Design” offers a highly accessible overview of Austrian design culture from 1900 to the present against the background of the country’s extremely turbulent industrial history. In the process, the key aspects are explained in essays by celebrated experts. The book attempts to delineate a specifically "Austrian” formal language, citing as examples specific achievements in historical and contemporary design. As it does so, it also sheds light on other defining moments of Austria’s design culture, including the enormous potential of its inventors, the phenomenon of semi-industrial manufacturing, and the innovative design solutions advanced by the Austrian sporting goods industry. A yellow pages section with selected design addresses rounds off the volume.

Blueprint

Blueprint
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The International Design Yearbook 2007

The International Design Yearbook 2007
Author: Patricia Urquiola
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007
Genre: Architectural design
ISBN: 1856695166

Leading showcase of international domestic design including more than 500 photographs with full technical data for each object and biographies of the designers whose work is featured.