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Garden Futures: Designing with Nature by Mateo Kries
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $71.68Gardens have always been places of leisure, pleasure, and production - they reflect identities, dreams, and visions. Deeply rooted in their culture, gardens have immense symbolic potential. The... -
The Vitra Campus: Architecture Design Industry (3rd edition) by Mateo Kries
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $35.69Since the 1980s, Vitra has enlisted some of the world's leading architects to design buildings for its campus, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and... -
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today Mateo Kries 9783945852330
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $92.24Surrealism expanded our reality by drawing upon myths, dreams, and the subconscious as sources of artistic inspiration. Beginning in the 1930s, the movement made a crucial impact on design, and it... -
Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture Mateo Kries 9783945852583
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $79.95Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture offers the first comprehensive overview of works created by one of the leading photographers of our time. More than six hundred images from two decades document... -
Barragán Outside Barragán: A journey through books, trips, exhibitions and friends by Fernanda Canales 9783945852682
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $23.26This publication is based on an illustrated talk presented by architect and historian Fernanda Canales in June 2024 at the Vitra Design Museum as part of the Barragan Lecture series. It focuses on... -
Robots 1:2: R.F. Collection by Rolf Fehlbaum
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $43.49The catalogue of a unique collection, ROBOTS 1:2 presents the space-themed toys in the R. F. Robot Collection held by the Vitra Design Museum. "Small kinetic sculptures of great originality": that is... -
Nike: Form Follows Motion Mateo Kries 9783945852644
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $70.63An unprecedented look at the design archives of the iconic sportswear brand. In Autumn 2024 the Vitra Design Museum will present the first ever museum exhibition about Nike, the world's most revered... -
The Shakers: A World in the Making Mateo Kries 9783945852668
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $73.81The exhibition "The Shakers: A World in the Making" aims to both examine the lasting impact of the Shaker legacy as well as the more unexpected facets of their production, ideology and way of life... -
Plastic: Remaking Our World by Mateo Kries
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $66.01Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is... -
Hello, Robot.: Design between Human and Machine Mateo Kries 9783945852507
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $68.56Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine investigates how robotics is increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives. The exhibition shows that design in its traditional function as a... -
Baranger Motion Displays: 55 Moving Scenes of Love, Courtship and Surrender by Rolf Fehlbaum 9783945852484
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $71.02This new publication is dedicated to the Baranger Motion Displays of the R. F. Collection housed at the Vitra Design Museum. Motion Displays were conceived as eye-catching and novel moving objects,... -
Umbrella House: Kazuo Shinohara, 1961/ 2022 by 9783945852552
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $47.68The Umbrella House is the smallest residential home by Japanese architect and mathematician Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006). This book tells the story of his unique masterpiece, which was first built in... -
Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show A to Z Jochen Eisenbrand 9783945852705
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $73.09An encyclopedic exploration of all facets of the fashion show, from its beginnings around 1900 to the present day The exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum explores the fashion show as a cultural... -
German Design 1949 - 1989: Two Countries, One History Mateo Kries 9783945852446
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $90.68The cheap, colourful plastic designs from East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: The publication German Design 1949 - 1989: Two Countries, One History does away... -
Tane Garden House by Rolf Fehlbaum 9783945852620
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $47.15This publication is accompanying the presentation "Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House" at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery, which is dedicated to the recently constructed Tane Garden House on the Vitra... -
An Art of Resilience: Popular Art from Brazil in the R.F. Collection by Rolf Fehlbaum 9783945852613
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $55.38Brazil unites some of the most creative manifestations of popular art in the world. By presenting works by the legendary Mestre Vitalino and other artists from Pernambuco, the Jequitinhonha Valley... -
The Atlas of Furniture Design by Mateo Kries 9783931936990
RRP: $312.00Booksplease Price: $210.41In 2019, the Vitra Design Museum will publish the Atlas of Furniture Design, the definitive, encyclopedic overview of the history of modern furniture design. Featuring over 1700 objects by more than... -
Transform! Design and the Future of Energy by Jochen Eisenbrand 9783945852606
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $79.95This publication accompanies the exhibition "Transform! Design and the Future of Energy" at the Vitra Design Museum. Energy is the central driving force of our society; Energy is political; Energy... -
Hella Jongerius: Whispering Things Glenn Adamson 9783945852729
RRP: $115.05Booksplease Price: $71.53A comprehensive monograph exploring Hella Jongerius' visionary, process-driven design practice, drawing on her archive recently acquired by the Vitra Design Museum.Hella Jongerius is among the most... -
The School I'd Like: Revisited: Children's and Young People's Reflections on an Education for the 21st Century by Catherine Burke
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08'Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this ground-breaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils'. -French bookstore... -
The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: A Universal Sense of Expectation Eric Schuldenfrei (University of Hong Kong) 9781138229334
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60The Films of Charles and Ray Eames traces the history of the Eameses' work, examining their evolution away from the design of mass-produced goods and toward projects created as educational... -
The Architecture of the Facade Randall Korman 9781138851719
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $89.56The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and... -
Seeing Jonathan Olivares 9783907179499
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $26.36I have had three great love affairs in my creative life: skateboarding, graffiti and industrial design. I started skateboarding when I was twelve, graffiti at sixteen, and industrial design at... -
Looking for the Voids: Learning from Asia's Liminal Urban Spaces as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural Practice Geraldine Borio 9783038602972
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $39.59In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Geraldine Borio presents findings from 15 years of experimental urban research in Asia, proposing new ways to interpret and design urban... -
Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City by Ferda Kolatan 9781032396118
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $69.69Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time... -
Lausanne by Ronan Bouroullec 9783907179734
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $18.92Born in Quimper (Brittany) in 1971, he studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliques et des Metiers d'Art. In 1996, his Vase Soliflore took its place in the Centre Pompidou's permanent... -
Building Better - Less - Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy: Fundamentals, Case Studies, Strategies by Felix Heisel 9783035621099
RRP: $80.93Booksplease Price: $68.64Sustainability is to become the guiding principle of social action and economic activity. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine... -
Masterplanning Futures by Lucy Bullivant 9780415554473
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $113.74Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes... -
Keith Haring in 3D Keith Haring 9781580937184
RRP: $97.40Booksplease Price: $66.96A fresh perspective on the work of Keith Haring - one of the world's most beloved contemporary artists - with a special focus on his three-dimensional work From the moment he landed in NYC in 1978,...