Autos sind wahre Kunstwerke. Eine ausgewählte Komposition der schönsten und wichtigsten Modelle aus der Automobil-Geschichte findet in diesem opulenten Bildband eine den Exponaten entsprechende Würdigung. Die Fahrzeuge sind chronologisch sortiert. Beginnend 1908 mit dem Ford Model T und abschließend mit dem M 5 von BMW aus dem Jahr 2003. Dazwischen prägten und faszinieren noch heute 84 weitere Vertreter die automobile Kunstgeschichte. Unter ihnen Schmückstücke wie der Cadillac 61, Citroen 2CV, Porsche 356, Fiat 600, Lotus Elite oder auch der NSU Prinz, VW Bulli, Volvo P1800, Buick Riviera und VW Golf.
Terence Conran, einer der einflussreichsten Designer unserer Zeit, hat gemeinsam mit dem Fachmann Stephen Bayley seine persönliche Auswahl der besten Designer, der einflussreichsten Strömungen und aufregendsten Kreationen des 20. Jahrhunderts aus den Bereichen Produkt-, Möbel-, Mode-, Automobil- und Grafikdesign zusammengetragen. Sachkundige Objektbeschreibungen, aufschlussreiche Informationen über Werdegang und Schaffensperioden der Designer sowie eine gelungene Bebilderung stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses besonderen Nachschlagewerks. Ergänzend dazu haben die Autoren in acht Einleitungsteilen den zeit- und kulturhistorischen Kontext der verschiedenen Designepochen kommentiert. Dieses Callwey Buch ist umfassendes Lexikon und inspirierender Bildband zugleich – kompakt, fundiert und kurzweilig.
How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-nineteenth century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of good taste as a way of codifying middle-class mores. A century later, to talk about taste had become almost taboo, since judgments made about dress, manners, food and art can often be painfully revealing. And today? When this classic text was first published in 1991, Stephen Bayley illuminated the nuances and niceties of our mercurial understanding of taste. In this new edition, he ranges far and wide to bring us exquisitely up to date. 'I don't know anybody with more interesting observations about style, taste and contemporary design' Tom Wolfe on Stephen Bayley AUTHOR: Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, curator and founding director of the influential Design Museum in London. Over the past thirty years his writing has changed the way the world thinks about design. He is the author of Death Drive, one the most talked about books of 2016. SELLING POINTS: * Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the thorny and sometimes elitist topic of 'taste' with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food * A new edition of a classic book, brought into the new millennium by Bayley's concise critique of modern design 90 colour images
What is ugly? The author takes us on a journey of discovery by skilfully
weaving centuries of art and design history into a discourse on the nature of
beauty and its polar opposite, ugly.
An elegiac account of what has recently been lost in the digital apocalypse.
But also a steadfastly enthusiastic and optimistic look at what we can regain
in a post-viral, more analogue and more thoughtful world.
The ultimate car book-a love letter to the most beautiful 86 cars ever manufactured by an award -winning car columnist and important cultural and design critic.The story of the car is the story of how objects of industry became a medium of artistic expression. Memorials of our tastes, yearnings, and capabilities, these machines have layers of meaning and can (as Henry Ford knew) be read like a book . . if only you know how.Stephen Bayley, car columnist, design authority and cultural commentator knows how, and in this opinionated volume, presents a spectacular study of achievements in car design. Bayley's 86 favorite designs range from the 1908 Ford Model T, to the 1961 Jaguar E-Type, to the 2003 BMW 5. All presented in chronological order, each automobile also makes a statement about the national character of the country of manufacture.In addition, hundreds of ravishing photographs (including full-body, interior and detail shots) and an elegant slipcase, make CARS the perfect gift book for all car enthusiasts and design aficionados.
The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and a detailed exploration of the circumstances of twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a Cadillac, in 2004.
