This is the first publication on the work of Konstantin Grcic, one of the most interesting and prolific designers of today. The book offers an insight into his design process showing products at different stages of development together with a remarkable portfolio of finished pieces through sketches, drawings and specially commissioned photographs. Edited by photographer and visual researcher Florian B+hm and with texts by Konstantin Grcic, Francesca Picchi and Pierre Doze.

Katsura: Imperial Villa

Arts & Photography

Doze, Pierre

Böhm, Florian

Grcic, Konstantin

Decorative Arts & Design

Phaidon Press

"My work is a result of the sculptor I almost am, the architect I would like to have been and the designer I am not entirely." Eric Schmitt. Eric Schmitt, born in 1955, makes objects in the grand tradition of the decorative arts. His unique creations of precision and laconic luxury were first shown in the mid-1980s by VIA, prior to being edited by Néotù and Pierre Staudenmeyer, and by En Attendant les Barbares. Experimenting with the contrast of materials - glass and steel, marble and Corian, slate and parchment - his supple forms manifest a constant tension of one kind or another, whether between thick and thin, transparent and opaque, solid and fragile, dark and colored, silent and sonorous. With pieces of his mentioned by Bret Easton Ellis in American Psycho, Eric Schmitt has worked with the leading editors in design around the world: Christian Liaigre, as well as the Dutko, Ralph Pucci, Cat-Berro, and IBU galleries, to name a few. Text in English and French.

Eric Schmitt

Architecture

Editions Norma

Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, the founders and directors of the leading contemporary design gallery Kreo (in Paris), have been collecting lights for 30 years. With an emphasis on Italian and French light design, their collection is the most important of its kind, comprising nearly 500 works of all kinds from the 1950s to the 1990s, and including significant groups of works by Paulin, Garrice, Castiglioni and Sarfatti. Conceived as a catalogue raisonné of this astounding collection, The Complete Designers’ Lights (1950–1990) provides an invaluable overview of light design and furniture history. It includes a discussion between Didier Krzentowski, Constance Rubini (curator of the Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs) and design critic Pierre Doze, as well as an essay by the design and art critic Alex Coles that focuses on the relationship between light design and light art, through a comparison of Gino Sarfatti and Dan Flavin.

The Complete Designers’ Lights 1950-1990

Coles, Alex

Rubini, Constance

Krzentowski, Didier

JRP|Ringier

This title showcases the career and work of designer Philippe Starck, who has made a significant impact on the design of mundane, everyday objects from toothbrushes to table lamps, as well as in the sphere of architecture.

Starck by Starck

Cooper, Ed Mae

Cooper, E. M.

Laville, Elisabeth

Anargyros, Sophie

Biographies & Memoirs

Taschen America, LLC

Philippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. His overwhelming international success and cult-star status are proof that people everywhere are receptive to his kindhearted philosophy and distinctive aesthetic sensibility. This overview of his stellar career includes examples of his best work around the globe.

Starck

"We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept." – Philippe Starck Philippe Starck wants to bring love and happiness into your life by designing objects, environments, and appliances that will brighten your days. He spent his childhood under his father's drawing boards, sawing, cutting, gluing, and sanding, dismantling bikes, motorcycles and other objects. Several years and several prototypes later, he has changed life at the French presidential palace, the Italians have asked him to renew the notion of furniture, and he has turned the Royalton and Paramount in New York into the first classics of the new hotel world. Starck's overwhelming international success and cult-star status are proof that people everywhere are receptive to his kindhearted philosophy and distinctive aesthetic sensibility. The democratic design projects that he has undertaken with Target (USA) and j/ii (Japan), as well as the TASCHEN bookshops in Paris and Los Angeles and the Bon restaurant chain, are among the projects included in this volume that traces the entire career of today's foremost design superhero.

Individual Artists

Starck. Taschen

History & Criticism

TASCHEN ESPAÑA, S.A.U.

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