An emancipator of porcelain, Piet Stockmans has freed this material to be a purely artistic means of expression. The Belgian artist first defunctionalized tableware, then created installations with porcelain on walls and floors, and finally introduced the human body into his oeuvre. This book is the first extensive monograph on the artist.

Piet Stockmans: Monograph

Arts & Photography

Raskin, Ludo

Individual Artists

Stichting Kunstboek

The Amstel Intercontinental Hotel has been the best known and most prestigious hotel of the Netherlands for 135 years. The regular visits of world figures or members of royal families have over the years given the hotel an almost mythical value. One of the reasons why so many guests from all over the world want to reside in the Amstel Hotel is without any doubt the culinary mastery of Edwin Kats, Chef of Restaurant La Rive. La Rive, situated on the shores of the Amstel, forms the ultimate location for a refreshing lunch or unique dinner. Recently, chef Edwin Kats and his 32 team members have received a second Michelin star for the many gastronomic top moments they offer their international guests time and time again. In this publication Alma Huisken (winner of the Wina Born-prize 2002) takes the reader on a walk from the chef's table to the wine room, everything situated in the most glorious setting of Amsterdam. This publication deals with everything that makes La Rive what it is and is richly ill

La Rive: The Taste of Amstel

Travel

Kats, Edwin

Huisken, Alma

Europe

Custom wheel rims for Mercedes Benz, double-decker train cars for the Belgian railway system, pots and pans for Tupperware and ice coolers for Coca-Cola are but a few of the 1500 sleekly designed products that the Belgian firm Enthoven Associates has created for its impressive roster of international clients over the past 30 years. This well-edited compendium illustrates how the role of product design has evolved within the firm over the past three decades, moving from the vision of an individual designer, Axel Enthoven, to the combined expertise of a team that has expanded to include Alain Denis and Jean-Pierre Geelen. Through images, interviews and essays, it traces the development of the firm's designs, from early aesthetic objects to current projects that combine design with technology, ethics and marketing concepts.

Enthoven Associates: Simplicity versus Complexity

Business & Money

Bucquoye, Moniek

Denis, Alain

Marketing & Sales

This series has documented the contemporary landscape architecture of Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and England. Now at last comes France, that historic force in formality (Versailles), fauvism (Fontainbleau) and egalitarianism (public parks), and a recent force in contemporary landscape architecture. The most accomplished projects of 20 renowned French landscape architects are presented--figures like Michel Corajoud, Jacques Coulon, Allain Provost, Pascal Cribier, Gilles Cl&#xE9;ment, Jacques Simon and Michel Desvigne--alongside the work of their up-and-coming younger colleagues--Louis Benech, Anne-Sylvie Bruel &amp; Christophe Delmar, Cath&#xE9;rine Mosbach, Christine &amp; Michel P&#xE9;na and many others. These inviting public parks, breathtaking castle gardens and gigantic sculpted surfaces surprise and please in 250 color photographs.

Garden and Landscape Architects of France

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Maarten Van Severen is among Belgium's most famous furniture designers and interior decorators working today. His quest for perfection in form, detail and fabrication is evident in his simple, pure lines and mastery of color. With a keen and critical eye, this son of an abstract painter (Dan Van Severen) has created innumerable chairs, sofas, cabinets and tables (.03, .04, Blue Bench, MVS Chaise, Schraag, to name just a few). In contrast to the austerity and limited range of his forms, Van Severen uses an almost flamboyant range of materials: aluminium, bakelite, carbon fibre, concrete, stone, glass, laminated bamboo, leather, plexiglass, plywood, polycarbonate, polyester, polyurethane, reinforced glass fibre, stone and timber. There is a respect for the particularities of materials, not only their structural qualities, but as surfaces, with visual and tactile qualities. His paired-down, sleek designs--either handmade in his home atelier in Ghent, or produced by important manufacturers such as Vitra, Edra, Bulo--continue to be very successful around the world, particularly in the United States and Japan. In addition to his furniture practice, Van Severen plays an important role as an interior designer in Van Abbemuseum (the Netherlands) and the Villa d'Ava (France) among others. And, in the near future, he will design a cutlery line for production with world-renowned Italian design firm, Alessi. This book, the most comprehensive publication about Van Severen to date, features large-plate images of his works, including dozens of new images of his designs. In addition to 170 color illustrations, Maarten Van Severen: Work also presents 70 written contributions from experts, manufacturers and the designer's colleagues. Van Severen's classic, Modernist pieces are underscored by the simple yet sophisticated design of this extensive volume.

Maarten Van Severen: Work

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Maarten Van Severen

Antiques & Collectibles

Since its inception in 1950, Tupperware has been helping chefs and preserving dinners around the globe. The lidded, plastic containers are so popular and well-designed that, Tupperware was awarded the National Design Award in Corporate Achievement by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and, in 2004, PBS premiered the documentary Tupperware!, which chronicles the history and life of the $1.2 billion a year company. The many styles of Tupperware are even housed in the permanent collections of fine art museums around the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.  Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Design Museum of Ghent, Belgium, Tupperware: Transparent is the complete catalogue raisonné of 45 years of Tupperware in Europe. Woven through the extensive illustrations is the story of Tupperware pioneers Earl Tupper (aha!) and Brownie Wise, a discussion about the origins of the well-known Tupperware party, notable Tupperware collectables, and the history of development of the famous Tupperware design. And, best of all, Tupperware:Transparent comes in an exclusive Tupperware edition, thus ensuring that the book will be protected for years to come. Plastic came back into fashion around 1992-93 as a cutting-edge, colorful material used by younger designers with at-the-bow companies like Alessi and Authentics, tremendously influenced by Tupperware. As a steadfast advocate of plastics, Tupperware has not stopped using plastics since its foundation in the 40s, through the pop years, and even when the material was neglected between 1973 and 1992.  -Murray Moss In the heyday of home shopping and door-to-door selling, you couldn't slip out of your house without bumping into an Avon Lady, getting cornered by a neighborly zealot singing the praises of Shaklee vitamins, or being invited to the major social event of the season--a Tupperware party.  --Vic Sussman U.S. News & World Report, September 17, 2002.  Extraordinary design for everyday living.  --Tupperware motto Essays by Moniek Bucquoye, Peter Scholliers, Peter Zec, et al. Boxed, 7.5 x 10.75 in./192 pgs / 950 color.

Tupperware: (BAD ISBN DNU)

Interest in Belgian design--be it furniture, fashion, graphics or products--has exploded in the last five years. Label-Design.be, Design in Belgium After 2000 presents the recent work of some 130 jury-selected designers and showcases at least four designs from each making it the most comprehensive overview of design in Belgium today. Here, function meets beauty and more! Included in the book are also designs of furniture, cars, trains and bathrooms. Preceding this unique overview are essays by Lise Coirer, Johan Valcke, and Francis Smets. Designers featured here include Claire Bataille & Paul Ibens, Colombo, Jo Crepain, Dark, Durlet, Extremis, Xavier Lust, Maximal Design, Modular, Quinze & Milan, Annick Schotte, Piet Stockmans, Vincent Van Duysen, Maarten Van Severen and many others.

Label-Design.Be: Design in Belgium After 2000

Smets, Francis

History & Criticism

New edition, finally available! In 1942, driven by natural curiosity and a shortage of industrial materials during the war years, Earl Silas Tupper, an American dreamer and amateur inventor, produced his first injection-molded plastic cup, the Bell Tumbler, which was followed soon after by his stackable plastic Wonderlier Bowl--neither of which found much success in the American marketplace. In 1949, inspired by the lid of a humble paint can, Tupper introduced the Tupper seal, a flexible, "burpable" lid for his bowls. It was that innovation, coupled with Tupper's pragmatic 1950s aesthetic and the extraordinary vision of one Brownie Wise, a 40-year-old housewife (and later the Vice President of the company) who convinced Tupper to distribute his products exclusively through home parties, that made Tupperware one of the most iconic, collectible and beloved industrial products of all time, both in America and overseas. Tupperware: Transparent is the complete catalogue raisonne of 45 years of Tupperware in America and Europe. Featuring more than 900 photographs--from vintage advertisements, to product shots, to candid photographs from early Tupperware parties--it also includes chapters on the history of the company, product design, Tupperware as museum object, the Tupperware Party and more. Perhaps most important of all, this jam-packed, extremely engaging publication actually comes in a custom Tupperware container produced exclusively for the book.

Tupperware: Transparent

Zec, Peter

KATZ, Sylvia

Scholliers, Peter

Cautereels, Vic

Daenen, Lieven

Wolters, Frederic

The French landscape architect Jacques Simon's love for nature first developed on his father's tree farm and then deepened when he traveled as a young man to Sweden and then Canada, where he attended art school in Montreal while working as a lumberjack. Between 1957 and 1959, Simon studied at the École Nationale de Horticulture. He has since become an important link in the renewal of French landscape architecture, combining the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian garden cultures he absorbed in his travels with classic Latin structures. He works as often as possible in situ, and does not shy away from driving the tractor himself. Since the 1980s, Simon has also been creating transitory landscapes--patterns in cultivated fields and on snowy grounds. His projects range from the design of a 15,000-acre park in Normandy to a giant Eiffel Tower built from bales of hay.

Jacques Simon: Articulture

Xavier Lust is one of the brightest lights in a recent wave of Belgian designers--such as Tom de Wulf, Jean Wauters and Frans van Praet--to achieve international recognition. Known in Belgium since the 1990s for his metal furniture and his designs for commercial and private spaces, Lust now works with such world-famous brands as De Padova, Driade, Moroso and Extremis. He successfully combines elegance with function, and his austere, almost origami-like re-shapings of single metallic sheets indicate a sensibility drawn to smooth lines and efficient use of minimal materials, often bespeaking a highly sculptural approach. Lust has stated, "I maintain a physical relationship with the objects, a subtle and not easily measurable relation, which can sometimes rise beyond concepts of comfort, solidity, price...I'm always searching for new methods of production, to create objects with innovative volumes, objects of accuracy." With 250 color images of works ranging from benches to candleholders, this book offers a taste of one of Europe's finest new designers.

Xavier Lust

Coirier, Lise

Morozzi, Cristina

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