ARTBOOK | D.A.P.

Product Design
Daniel Brush
MuseuM of ArTs & desIGn
edited by Amy wilkins. Introduction
by dr. oliver sacks. Text by david revere
Mcfadden, brett Littman, daniel
brush, olivia brush, saskia hamilton,
Paul keegan.
the work of Daniel Brush (born 1947)
does not fit neatly into the categories
commonly used to describe contemporary
art or craft. While he uses traditional
art media such as pen and ink
and paper or canvas, he also uses materials
such as blocks of billet steel,
pure aluminum, pure gold and precious
gems; he also makes exquisite
jewelry. the seemingly simple objects—drawings,
paintings, small sculptures,
jewelry and other objects hard to
classify—are belied, upon close inspection,
by details that are astonishing in
their precision and technical facility.
most of Brush’s work is in private collections
around the world, and it is
rarely seen in public. Containing more
than 450 photographs (all of which
represent the artworks at their actual
size), this book shows much of the
artist’s work of the last decade and
affords a rare opportunity to contemplate
these objects.
978-1-890385-24-8
Clth, 13.5 x 13 in. / 276 pgs / 486 color.
U.S. $85.00 CDn $85.00
november/Design & Decorative arts
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
new York: museum of arts and
Design, 10/16/12–02/17/13
Furniture by
Architects
From Aalto to Zumthor
wALTher könIG, köLn
edited by Petra hesse, Gabrielle
Lueg. foreword by Petra hesse.
Text by Gabrielle Ammann, romana
breuer, Gabrielle Lueg, rené spitz,
sofia wagner.
Furniture by Architects surveys the
twentieth-century tradition of innovative
furniture design by architects,
which stems into the present as architects
continue to design movable furnishings
for their buildings, creating
aesthetically unified environments.
the book poses such questions as: do
architects design differently to product
designers? Do they exhibit any consistent
aesthetic preferences? Is there
something typically architectural in
their designs? Furniture by Architects
features works by alvar aalto, ron
arad, gae aulenti, Karl Bertsch, emil
Beutinger, marcel Breuer, pierre
Chareau, egon eiermann, el Lissitsky,
norman Foster, Frank gehry, Walter
gropius, Zaha Hadid, marc Held,
Josef Hoffmann, arne Jacobsen,
Le Corbusier, Daniel Libeskind, gio
ponti, richard riemerschmid, gerrit
rietveld, eero Saarinen, mackay Hugh
Baillie Scott, o.m. Ungers, mies van der
rohe, otto Wagner, Frank Lloyd Wright
and peter Zumthor, among others.
978-3-86335-127-4
Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 160 color /
10 b&w.
U.S. $49.95 CDn $49.95
august/Design & Decorative arts/
architecture
Gino Sarfatti:
Complete Works
1938–1973
sILvAnA edITorIALe
Text by Marco romanelli, sandra
severi.
the Senate may have tried legislating
the lightbulb, but only one person
has ever truly loved it, and that was
Italian designer gino Sarfatti (1912–
1985). after abandoning his studies in
aeronautical engineering for financial
reasons, Sarfatti founded the internationally
renowned interior design firm
arteluce. In his 30-year career, Sarfatti
designed and produced more than 600
lighting fixtures—from the globular
and mobile to the mushroomed, coiled
and woven—continuously exploring
innovative new ways of manufacturing
and shaping the bulbs, cords and
stands that light our interior worlds,
even making pioneering use of
halogen bulbs in fixtures as early as
1971. His preference for the status of
“technician” over “artist” may have
contributed to his lack of recognition
in the art world, but this publication
amply makes up for the oversight and
illuminates his many achievements
in more than 1,000 images.
978-88-366-2174-3
pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 380 pgs / 700 color /
400 duotone.
U.S. $70.00 CDn $70.00
September/Design & Decorative arts
Sgrafo vs. Fat Lava
JrP|rInGIer
edited by nicolas Trembley. Text
by ronan bouroullec, horst Makus,
nicolas Trembley.
From raymond Loewy’s austere “Form
2000” teapot set of the mid-1950s to
the Sgrafo vases of the 1960s and the
improbable “Fat Lava” glacis of the
1970s, postwar german ceramics exhibited
a tremendous stylistic diversity,
mixing references to op art,
geometric abstraction, the funky, angular
designs of Werner panton and the
biomorphism of hippie aesthetics.
Both famed and anonymous designers
translated the various aspirations of a
postwar germany under reconstruction
into exaggerated, semi-futuristic
shapes, as well as pursuing cooler,
more stripped down effects. Sgrafo vs.
Fat Lava explores this fertile tension in
german ceramics, with reproductions
of relevant works, an essay by the ceramics
specialist Horst markus and an
interview with designer ronan
Bouroullec.
978-3-03764-277-1
pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 22 color.
U.S. $15.00 CDn $15.00
July/Design & Decorative arts
Also Available:
Gio Ponti: fascination
for Ceramics
9788836620647
Pbk, u.s. $40.00
Cdn $40.00
silvana editoriale
Low Cost Design
Volume 2
sILvAnA edITorIALe
Text by daniele Pario Perra, Lucia
babina, Pier francesco frillici, emiliano
Gandolfi, Christrina kreps,
francesco Morace, renzo di renzo,
Luca villa.
Low Cost Design is based on the principle
that the most innovative design
ideas are not necessarily the ones passing
through the patent offices, architectural
and design studios or the
computers of multinational companies;
on the contrary, they are often
born from some simple everyday solutions
and the brilliant flash of a practical
mind. Functioning as a visual
dictionary of everyday ingenuity and
self-sufficiency, and spanning northern
europe and the southern mediterranean,
this second volume of Low
Cost Design catalogues further inspiring
examples of the creative repurposing
of detritus, and of overlooked land,
by ordinary people—whether for reasons
of subsistence, politics or sheer
artistry. as in the first volume, the various
innovations are classified as either
“objects” or “actions.” together they
form a fascinating sociological, urban
and ethnographical panorama of contemporary
knowhow.
978-88-366-2051-7
Flexi, 8.75 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
U.S. $50.00 CDn $50.00
September/Design & Decorative arts
Now
Perception of Time and
Contemporary Design
ArChITeCTure & desIGn hIGhLIGhTs
My Toy Airplanes
1910–1960
hATJe CAnTz
edited Patrick despature. foreword
by Lucien baggieri, Paul Lang.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the
first aviator to fly solo across the atlantic,
turning him and his plane—the
Spirit of St. Louis—into instant international
celebrities and launching the
aviation industry. that same year the
manufacturer J.m.L. produced a toy
version of Lindbergh’s plane, and with
it, the toy airplane industry also took
off. toy biplanes, propeller planes, hydroplanes,
military planes and autogiros
were produced by such early
twentieth-century german toy manufacturers
as märklin, tipp & Co., Distler,
günthermann, rossignol, Joustra,
Ingap, paya and rico. made of tinplate
or sheet-iron, and based on blurry
black-and-white newspaper photographs,
these multicolored toys took
great artistic license and lacked technical
accuracy. this catalogue presents
these naive masterpieces alongside
the actual aircraft they were intended
to model, and tells a story of product
design in which enthusiasm fruitfully
soared beyond technology.
978-3-7757-3016-7
Clth, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 480 pgs /
800 color / DvD (paL).
U.S. $75.00 CDn $75.00
october/Design & Decorative arts
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Text by friederike fast, rainer funke,
Jörg hundertpfund, Michael kröger,
Tido von oppeln, wolfang Pauser,
wolfgang ullrich.
Now: Perception of Time and Contemporary
Design addresses the presence
and incorporation of temporality in
contemporary design. essays by leading
design curators and scholars examine
objects designed to measure time,
or reverse it (in the case of beauty
products); objects that are designed to
mimic times past, and objects addressing
of-the-moment issues such as sustainability
and the green movement.
among the designers and design companies
whose works are surveyed here
are Yves Behar, pieke Bergmanns, max
Bill, natalia Brilli, nacho Carbonell,
michel Charlot, oscar Diaz, Delphine
Frey, Front Design, martí guixé, Studio
gorm, Susanna Hertrich, Wassily
Kandinsky, Joris Laarmann, via
Lewandowski, t.g. Libertiny, alexa
Lixfeld, thomas Lommée, martin
margiela, Jo meesters, Sander mulder,
Shinichiro ogata, verner panton,
Studio Job, Wieki Somers, philippe
Starck, mattheo tunn, Bas van der
veer, anders Wilhelmson, Samuel
Wilkinson and Bethan L. Wood.
978-3-86678-592-2
pbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 200 pgs /
115 color / 7 b&w.
U.S. $25.00 CDn $25.00
august/Design & Decorative arts
Poster No. 524
The Deconstruction of the
Contemporary Poster
vALIz
edited by rianne Petter, rene Put.
Text by Jeroen boomgaard, Jouke
kleerebezem.
taking 523 posters found in the streets,
graphic designers rené put (1962) and
rianne petter (1975) carefully studied
and deconstructed their composition,
investigating and isolating certain elements
and reassembling them into a
brand new poster. Poster No. 524 presents
their researches, revealing how a
creative process unfolds, how art operates
in public spaces and how one
goes about creating a visual identity.
offering a history of poster design
since 1900, Poster No. 524 is a how-to
manual that will allow even novices to
make their way into the world of poster
design, giving step-by-step insight
into how one makes a poster effectively
communicate. this book will be
an engaging tool for both students and
professionals seeking to analyze and
construct the framework and creative
space of a poster.
978-90-78088-59-2
Flexi, 9 x 12.5 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color /
20 b&w.
U.S. $33.95 CDn $33.95
December/Design & Decorative arts