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Women designers have made an immense contribution to our shared material culture and built environment. However, in the narrative of design history...

The career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface; generously illustrated in co...

Denim is a symbol of cultural globalisation. Democratic, versatile, resistant to the passing of time and to changing tastes and styles, it embodies...

Joe Colombo (Milan, 1930-1971) was one of the greatest designers of the last century, visionary and ingenious, capable of giving shape to ideas tha...

Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in postwar France. He created a prolific body of wor...

Dirk Wynants (1964) is the founder and owner of Extremis, the innovative Belgian design label. He is also the company's head designer and devised t...

The second half of the nineteenth century is considered the golden age of children's literature. Is precisely at this moment that these two artist ...

Their posters manifest a reduced expression, convincing in a poetic-sensuous manner while challenging intellectually. In particular the posters adv...

Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printe...

A collection of the lavish and iconic gowns of Christian Dior, from the 1950s and 60s, captured by the legendary photographer Mark Shaw. Iconic ph...

Christian Dior described him as the inspiration for the New Look. Salvador Dali called his work soft sculpture, and Virginia Woolf exclaimed, He i...

A Daily Mail Book of the Week. The first fully comprehensive biography of Norman Hartnell, largely drawing on Hartnells forgotten rediscovered ar...

Chances are if you've shaved with an electric razor, blow-dried your hair, or sparked up a cigarette in the past 60 years, you owe a debt of gratit...

Finnish for ''Mary''s dress'', Marimekko was founded in 1951 by Armi Ratia. Going against the restrictive fashion of the period, it produced flowin...

For decades, anyone who cared about product design looked to the Braun label when choosing their appliances, radios, and other consumer items. Diet...

A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass-production, William Morris (1834 1896) designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his highly or...

As featured in Wall Street Journal The most innovative, iconic, and influential products ever designed - from 1663 to the present day Originating ...

More than a truly brilliant graphic designer, Otl Aicher was a transformative thinker, photographer, typographer, ecologist, philosopher, co-founde...

Do fashion and art go together? Fashion and art are both physical and psychological instruments that define our identity in this world. They bring ...

The definitive overview of one of the worlds most experimental and distinctive graphic-design studios. Originally established in 1992 by Michaël Am...

This book introduces the work of Piero De Martini (1939), one of the key figures in Italian design during the last 30 years of the 20th century. T...

Malika Favre is one of the worlds most celebrated illustrators, known for her stunningly simple work, often utilising a handful of perfectly refine...

Fashion is balance, with a dash of theatre, was Nino Cerruti's favourite bon mot. This monograph, the most substantial on him to date, is an entert...

Azzedine Alaia (1935 2017) was regarded as a contemporary fashion genius. Edited by his close friend, Carla Sozzani, and life partner, Christoph vo...

Machine Dazzle, to my mind, [is] a true theatrical genius who has created some of the most inventive costumes and sets I have ever seen. Hilton A...

The first monograph from LAYER, one of the world's most sought-after contemporary design studios, and its founder Benjamin Hubert, providing a cand...

Welcome to HAY's universe of irresistible, affordable, everyday design. 'HAY is destined to be an important part of the modern design canon - not a...

Floral artists Per Benjamin (SE) and Max van de Sluis (NL) have flourishing individual careers as designers and educators, but next to that they st...

Designer and interior decorator Dorothy Drapers colour-filled life story is one of high society, money, gossip, and throughout it all, reinvention....