Modern Living Accessories: 100 Years Of Design

Description: Many of the design objects included in Modern Living Accessories are famous design classics, such as Pietro Chiesa's vase Cartoccio (1932), or outstanding creations by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkalas from the late 1960s and early 1970s up to Jaime Hayon's and his Cristal Candy series (2009) for Baccarat. This comprehensive sourcebook features them beautifully, with full descriptions of their historic relevance and design excellence.

Review: "certain to provide interior designers, design students and anyone interest in functional art a visual feast" MODERN LIVING ACCESSORIES ISBN-13: 978-3848000418 Lifestyle Book Reviews Book Review: Modern Living Accessories By Sandy Amazeen From the ultra trendy to the absurd and everything in between, at five hundred eleven pages, this impressive volume serves up an encompassing look at household accessories over the past hundred years. There is an absolutely stunning, completely useless and very expensive ceramic rhinoceros as well as the iconic lava lamp, glasses that change motifs when filled, an impressive if bizarre horse lamp, graceful vases along with nearly anything else you can imagine and more then a few you can't. The timeline of accessories provides an interesting view of the differences and similarities of design aesthetics over the past one hundred years. Top-notch color photography accompanied by spare descriptions, this three-language celebration of those little extras is certain to provide interior designers, design students and anyone interest in functional art a visual feast.





Author Biography: Fremdkorper, a design studio in Potsdam, Germany, was founded by Andrea Mehlhose and Martin Wellner in 1996. After showcasing designs several European furniture and accessory design fairs promoting young and emerging designers, they were invited to participate in international exhibits in Belgium, France, Italy, USA, Germany, and Japan. In addition to commissioned projects to corporate, product, and graphic design, they work on their own designs, which aim to creatively break with traditional expectations. In keeping with this intention, Fremdkorper presents an overview of 150 years of furniture history, in which well-known design icons can be found alongside commonplace and avant-garde pieces."