Spoon

by Editors of Phaidon Press

• ISBN13: 9780714842516
• ISBN10: 0714842516
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-20
• Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd

Summary

This is a comprehensive view of product design, presenting the work of 100xceptional international designers - who have emerged on an internationallatform since the late 1990s - selected by 10 critics, designers andntrepreneurs, highly respected for their informed opinion on thenternational contemporary design scene. It provides an opportunity to see aiverse collection of design projects that includes a whole range of objects:urniture, lightning, tools, utensils, high-tech products, machinery and son.;The designers' pages are listed in alphabetical order featuring twoouble-page spreads for each designer, of exemplary products accompanied withketches, drawings, computer renderings, model and prototypes that help toxplain, together with the extensive captions, the process behind eachroject. A short explanatory text by the curator explains the designers' worknd the characteristics that make his/her projects forward-looking and groundreaking. The text also features, at the end of the book, 10 "classic",ndustrially manufactured product designs, chosen by the curators as best