Design : intelligence made visible / Stephen Bayley & Terence Conran.

By:

Bayley, Stephen

Contributor(s):

Conran, Terence

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Conran Octopus, 2007.Description: 335 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:

9781840914771 (hbk.) :
9781840914771 (hbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

745.2 BAY

LOC classification:

TS171

Contents:

1.An industrious love of art: the beginnings of design -- 2.Lawful prey: mass consumption -- 3.A kilogram of stone or a kilogram of gold? -- 4.Hygiene of the optical: the romance of the machine -- 5.The cash value of art: America -- 6.La ricostruzione: Italy sinces the fifties -- 7.Ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos: symbolism and consumer pyschology -- 8.All that is solid melts into air: design since the eighties.

Summary: Paying tribute to the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols, this title combines essential facts with authoritative opinions on the history of design, on everything, as the industrial designer Raymond Loewy once said, from a lipstick to a steamship.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending	745.2 BAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		204997

Includes index.

Paying tribute to the leading names, movements, materials and processes such as furniture, fashion, cars, graphics, products, signs and symbols, this title combines essential facts with authoritative opinions on the history of design, on everything, as the industrial designer Raymond Loewy once said, from a lipstick to a steamship.