Phaidon Design Classics

item info

category: print > books

publisher: Phaidon

genre: Design

format: hardcover

dimensions: 210 x 245 mm, 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 in

pages: 3300

isbn: 9780714843995

item description

A three-volume set containing the most comprehensive collection of design classics

Featuring the most innovative, beautiful and influential products created in the last 200 years
999 objects selected by a panel of experts that includes designers, architects, auctioneers, critics, curators, journalists and academics

Each object is accompanied by a text written by one of over fifty experts from the field of design, with precise information about each product, each designer, each manufacturer and their history

Illustrated with a wide range of photographs, original sketches, patents, prototypes and rarely seen archival images, painstakingly researched and collected directly from designers, archives and manufacturers

Presented in a specially designed carrying unit