Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi (Book)

by Sandra Dachs, Patricia De Muga & Laura Garcia Hintzo Focuses on Eileen Gray, a breakaway designer in a world dominated by male-centric style schools Besides an introductory essay, each title in the By Architects series is compiled by key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original productions, and ambient shootings A design-orientated book for a design-orientated series, Eileen Gray boasts an innovative layout and a special binding Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Eileen Gray was to stand alone throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another - whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands, or a formal one such as the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne - Gray remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working. Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe, who shared much of her ideology. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table...

This book as you may see from the main image; is termed "a short illustrated review" - which describes the work of some 120 Danish Furniture Designers and is accompanied buy 520 illu...

A hard back book with no dust jacket as published. Being one of a series of monographs about designers of the 20th and 21st centuries. 120 pages, illustrated throughout with beautifu...

Edited by Andrea Branzi & Michele De Lucchi This book is a photographic record of an exhibition which was organised in 1977 to showcase "Italian Design in the Fifties", all manner o...

Mid-Century Modern Isamu Kenmochi ashtray in chrome and plastic. Stamped underneath with makers information. Made in the USA. Dimensions: 6 in...

Hardback coffee table book featuring the clay works of renowned designer, Isamu Noguchi. By The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, published in 2003. First edition, 220 pages. "Isamu Noguch...

An elegant exploration of the hugely influential simplicity, beauty, and functionality of Nordic design timeless, yet on trend From literature to food...

Pietro Cicognani Architecture and Design By: Karen Bruno Photography by Francesco Lagnese Foreword by Isabella Rossellini For the past thirty years, Itali...