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Title: Strangely Familiar
Condition: New
Subtitle: Design and Everyday Life
Author: Rachel Whiteread
Contributor: Andrew Blauvelt (Edited by), Rachel Whiteread (By (artist)), Allan Wexler (By (artist)), Kathy Halbreich (Foreword by), Jonathan Bell (Text by), Jamer Hunt (Text by), Aaron Betsky (Text by), MVRDV (Contributions by), Shigeru Ban (Contributions by), Atelier Bow-Wow (Contributions by), LOT/EK (Contributions by), Michael Anastassiades (Contributions by), Jurgen Bey (Contributions by), Julian Lion Boxenbaum (Contributions by), Shigeru Uchida (Contributions by), Paolo Ulian (Contributions by), Jop van Bennekom (Contributions by), Marcel Wanders (Contributions by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0935640754
EAN: 9780935640755
ISBN: 9780935640755
Publisher: Walker Art Centre,U.S.
Genre: Fashion & Design
Release Date: 06/02/2003
Description: Exploring the paradox of design in our daily livesIn the past decade, designers have become increasingly engaged with the quotidian. This shift away from more strictly formal and functional concerns has allowed them to freely explore design's contexts and effects. A light that responds to silence, a table that knows where it is, a pig farm the size of a skyscraper, a coat that becomes a tent, a house that fits in your pocket--these projects by innovators in the field of design question the habitual, transform the commonplace, alter our notions of dwelling and blur the boundaries between form and function. Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life explores the paradox of design in our daily lives. Anonymous and conspicuous, familiar and strange, design surrounds us while fading from view, becoming second nature to us and yet remaining still somehow elusive. This exhibition catalogue includes more than 40 innovative projects drawn internationally from the fields of architecture, product, furniture, fashion and graphic design. Among the designers and architects featured are Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, LOT-EK, Atelier Bow-Wow, Dunne & Raby, Marcel Wanders, Michael Anastassiades, Constantin and Laurene Leon Boym, and Allan Wexler. This richly illustrated volume includes essays on the tactics of formlessness and its impact on everyday consumption, the potential of an endlessly transformable environment to extend product lifecycles, and ruminations on the strange and familiar worlds of design.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 220mm
Item Length: 150mm
Release Year: 2003

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