From Alvar Aalto to Marco Zanuso, Chairs presents more than 1,000 innovations created by some of the world’s most influential designers.

History and Other Objects brings together a substantial selection of works by Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, ranging across media such as installation, object, photography, and archival engagements.

This publication examines the furniture designs of Charles Rohlfs, one of the most distinctive figures associated with the American Arts and Crafts movement.

The work, career and influence of the outstanding German designer of the 20th century:

In 1999, pioneering fashion editor and stylist Babeth Djian founded Numéro, the now famous Paris magazine with an unmistakable aesthetic that boldly combines fashion with contemporary art.

The publication assembles a large corpus of found photographic images depicting so-called “dummy” figures used in advertising

The Whole Story offers a large-scale, chronologically structured survey of dress and fashion from antiquity to the present,

A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name,

This edition of Donald Albrecht’s comprehensive study offers an in-depth examination of the life and work of Andrée Putman.

The very first book on the subject of costume illustration for the movies, Hollywood Sketchbook, contains over 500

Im Zentrum der Publikation steht die Auseinandersetzung mit Scheinwelten und konstruierten Realitäten. Essays aus den Bereichen Gestaltung,

Presented here in this visual anthology are the current boutique periodicals so cutting-edge, they will continue to flourish in print even as their mainstream contemporaries move to digital.

In addition to recent works, the exhibition focused on “Signetische Zeichnung” (1994-95), a spectacular early work by the Frankfurt-based artist, which was on display in its entirety for the first time.

What might be considered the research output of a walking practice? An important caveat to this would be to ask where and when the research occurs in relation to the walk, the walking, and the walkers. Does the walk activate our senses, or do our senses demand that we walk? Since walking involves encounters with various objects and subjects, how

Der Berliner Schlüssel von Bruno Latour liest sich als wunderbar klarer Text, der nicht nur Latours Verständnis unserer Gesellschaft verdeutlicht, sondern gleichzeitig auch einen für viele Berliner alltäglichen und doch mysteriösen Gegenstand bespricht: Diesen Schlüssel mit doppeltem Bart, der vor 100 Jahren

he mysterious interplay of light and shadow has fascinated humankind since time immemorial. In Asia in particular this led to the development of the lively traditions of shadow puppetry. The exquisitely aesthetic puppets in this volume will lure the viewer into the world of shadow puppetry, from China to south and southeast Asia and from the Orient to Europe.

Notes on Book Design is a collection of 50 texts written by designers Siri Lee Lindskrog and Amanda-Li Kollberg of graphic and type design studio Formal Settings, based on books from the collection of Hopscotch Reading Room in Berlin.

Which code to read the world with? Which story to invoke the world with? Connectings (2021) is an artist book by Adéla Součková that addresses the contemporary mythological world. Součková‘s pictographic blue and red line drawings depict a human gaining self-awareness through the connection between the Sky and the Earth.

It creates expanded and stratified performances which also include the implementation and dissemination of design collections, audio-visual formats and editorial products.

French designer Pierre Charpin (b. 1962, lives in Paris) holds a singular position within his field. He became a designer after finishing his Visual Arts studies and started to gain recognition in the mid-1990s. Articulated with a strong and liberated use of colors and materials, his creations—objects, furniture and exhibition designs—deal with the notions of landscape and autonomy, humor and surprise, poetic presence and minimalism.

This room is being constructed by its contributions, it is being modeled by the filling of its parameters. The hinges of this construction might be functions within it that become as yet unknown parameters by the very act of reading them. IT IS A STOPOVER. ...The room it offers is circumscribed and structured by the book’s parameters: format, binding, jacket, title page, layout, preface, postface, table of contents, captions, cross headings, intertitles, annotations, editorial notes, appendix, blurb, names and accessories. THIS BOOK IS A CLASSROOM. We invite you to

»stop!...reading at this point!«

Stickschriften von Musterbüchern aus drei Jahrhunderten. Ein einzigartiger Einblick in ein besonderes Kapitel der Schrift- wie der Sozialgeschichte. »In den Warteräumen weiblicher Lebensläufe des 19. Jahrhunderts ist das Handarbeiten die bevorzugte Stillbeschäftigung. Stickend und häkelnd verschönert die Frau die häusliche Sphäre, auf die sie für alle Zeiten abonniert ist. Sie beugt sich über ein Stück Stoff, oftmals nicht größer als ein Taschentuch, ihr Bewegungsradius und ihre Aufmerksamkeit sind reduziert auf das Zusammenspiel zwischen den Händen, die die Nadel führen und den Augen, die die fadendünnen Abstände messen und die Einstichstellen sondieren.«

Like all animals, humans are programmed for survival. Fight or flight? Duck! Run for cover! Our reflex, when we register fear, is to protect ourselves.

Im Jahr 2019 wird das Bauhaus 100 Jahre alt. Inwieweit kann uns die Vergangenheit des Bauhauses noch Antworten auf Gestaltungsfragen der Gegenwart bieten und umgekehrt?