Objectivity

A Designer's Book of Curious Tools

David Usborne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2019
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-500-28871-9 (ISBN)

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A cabinet of beguiling yet useful curiosities: the objects that get jobs done, improve domestic and working lives, and make our houses more comfortable.

Some tools were developed to satisfy basic human needs, some for less obvious ends, and still others are the relics of vanishing trades, yet all display a beauty and meaning beyond their function.

More than 400 objects, ancient and modern, are presented in sections that broadly characterize their use: hitting, cutting, holding, shielding, molding, spreading, gripping, rubbing, and testing. From a nineteenth-century fruit picker to Czech military food-mixing blades, from variations on the kitchen whisk to medical instruments that, thankfully, are no longer in use, there is something in these objects that will touch the inventor, designer, artist, or collector in all of us.

David Usborne is a London-based architect. Thomas Heatherwick is one of Britain's most innovative designers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2019
Vorwort	Thomas Heatherwick
Zusatzinfo	Frontispiece; Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 208 mm
Gewicht	683 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-500-28871-2 / 0500288712
ISBN-13	978-0-500-28871-9 / 9780500288719
Zustand	Neuware