domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home
2021-06-23
From the editors of domino magazine comes your essential guide to discovering your personal style and creating a space you love.Read More →
Home Decor Cheat Sheets: Need-to-Know Stuff for Stylish Living
2021-06-23
THE MOST IMPORTANT HOME DESIGN, DECOR, AND FURNISHING CONCEPTS SIMPLIFIED IN 300 EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND GRAPHICSRead More →
The Fashion Book (Hardcover)
2021-06-23
The legendary bestseller, which has over 500 of fashion’s most famous names from A to Z, has been revised in a gorgeous new edition.Read More →
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000
2021-06-23
A comprehensive examination of the history of decorative arts and design throughout the world over the last 600 years.Read More →
The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America
2021-06-23
A new look at the Arts and Crafts Movement, tracing its roots in reformist ideas, engagement with commercial culture, and eventual presence in everyday life.Read More →
6 Amazing Books for the Ceramics Lover
2021-06-23
The following 6 books are our latest offerings on Ceramics and Pottery. Everything that will satisfy the novice to the expert. Our blog has focused recently on British Studio pottery and ceramics and we have 3 books that explore the enormous canon of British ceramic collections.Read More →
Amazing Glaze: Techniques, Recipes, Finishing, and Firing (Mastering Ceramics)
2021-06-23
Whether you relish the prospect of glazing your work or exclaim, “I despise glazing!” It’s for you, Amazing Glaze. Gabriel Kline, author and proprietor of Odyssey Clayworks, will take you on a trip that will make glazing less frightening and more enjoyable. Read More →
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
2021-06-23
Through essays, interviews, artwork, typeface and beyond, lesser heard voices at various stages of their careers are given a platform to share insights from the inside. Along with information on hiring processes, power structures, mentoring, workplace discrimination and more, Extra Bold aims to make the world of design a little more accessible.Read More →
Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) – Symbolism and Metaphor
2021-06-23
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist that lived most of her life and physical pain, yet she continued to paint until her death, her artwork records her suffering and experiences as a woman. She was born to a Mexican mother and a German father.Read More →
Adhocism – an idea of improvisation
2021-06-23
‘Adhocism’ ideas were coined in their book Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation by architect, theoretician, former Designer Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver (1972). Read More →
Deutscher Werkbund German artistic and production association
2021-06-23
The organisation, Deutscher Werkund was founded in Munich (1907) to improve products’ design through the joint efforts of artists, craftsmen, and manufacturers: its leading lights were Behrens, Theodor Fischer, Hermann Muthesius and Fritz Schumacher.Read More →
Albert Reimann (1874 – 1971) German metalworker and educator
2021-06-22
Albert and his wife Klara Reimann founded the SchĂĽlerwerkstatten fĂĽr Kleinplastik (School for Small Sculpture) in Berlin in 1902. Reimann was a gifted craftsman who created prototypes to produce bronze, copper, silver, gold, and pottery. Read More →
Minnie Macleish (1876 – 1957 ) British textile designer
2021-06-22
She collaborated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Constance Irving at London’s Foxton textiles and Amsterdam’s Metz store. Macleish was a prolific designer during the 1920s and 1930s, creating patterns for Morton Sundour fabrics.Read More →
Harold Stabler (1872 – 1945) British ceramicist, enameller, jeweller and silversmith
2021-06-22
Harold Stabler’s lengthy, illustrious career began in the Arts and Crafts movement and extended into the modernist era. Over the 50 years or so he devoted to the arts, he created an astounding diversity of highly regarded pieces, both unique and mass-produced, in various mediums and styles. Read More →
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Austrian Designer
2021-06-21
Although trained and active as an architect, Sottsass secured a permanent place in pop culture with his designs of everyday items. From 1957, he was a consultant designer at Olivetti, where he designed computers, adding machines, typewriters, and systems furniture. Read More →
The London Underground Map – Design Icon
2021-06-21
The London Underground is the world’s oldest subway, most people know it colloquially as the Tube. An engineering marvel and just as almost as famous is the map. The Tube map is instantly recognisable all over the world. It is a simple and elegant diagram of the 400-kilometre subway network. It is considered by many as one of the great images of the 20th century.Read More →
LaGardo Tackett (1911 – 1992) American Ceramicist
2021-06-21
He ran a pottery studio from 1946 to 1954. He taught at Los Angeles’s California School of Design, where he and his students developed outdoor pottery planters, which resulted in establishing the Architectural Pottery in 1950.Read More →
Daniel Mack ( b.1947) American furniture designer
2021-06-21
Daniel Mack creates fine custom furniture, architectural detail, and decoration from wood as close to its natural form and texture as possible, frequently incorporating glass, metal, or stone.Read More →
Erwin Komeda (1904 – 1966) Austrian Automobile Designer
2021-06-21
In 1934, he joined Ferdinand Porsche’s design bureau in Stuttgart and began work on the styling of the Volkswagen, the people’s car.Read More →
La Paresse (1924 – 1925) by George Barbier
2021-06-21
George Barbier, a French graphic artist, created this scene of cultured decadence. It is a pochoir print based on a 1924 watercolor; it appeared in the following year’s fashion annual, Falbalas et Fanfreluches. Read More →