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The Design Mix
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Howard Watson, £16.99 (Wiley)
Quite a nice idea this one. Take one part cocktail recipes and mix liberally with one part commercial design of some of the world’s most attractive watering holes. We like this one. Bring us another, waiter! |
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The Way We Live By The Sea
by Stafford Cliff & Gilles de Chabaneix, £19.95 (Thames & Hudson)
What’s the point? A series of photographs that seem to have been lifted from bad holiday brochures and old copies of Country Living! There’s very little to be had from this collection of clichéd images of ‘traditional’ marine charm. Oh, we don’t like to be beside the seaside!
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Western Ornament
by Michael Snodin, £14.99
(V&A Publications)
Too big a subject, too small a book.
In fact, more of an ornament than anything else as it brushes over the surface in a scattergun approach, some chapters relating to certain objects, some to periods.
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Moulding, Assembling, Designing Ceramics In Architecture
free of charge (Ascer)
Who said you don’t get anything for free? They were wrong. This is a cracking little book published by Ascer, the Spanish Ceramic Tile Association that works extremely hard for its members. After Italy the Spanish tile industry is the largest in the world and produces some truly innovative work – some of which is here to see.
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While largely devoted to the architectural uses of ceramics – including ventilated facades, at the moment being considered in light of the new Part L changes to the Building Regs – it should be of great interest to designers of all types with some interesting uses of tiles in commercial settings.
For your copy send an e-mail to consumo.londres@mcx.es.
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21st Century House
by Jonathan Bell, £19.95
(Laurence King)
Year six of the new millennium and we have a round-up of the definitive architecture for the next 100 years? To be fair, Bell does take the sting out of this criticism in his interesting, if a little rambling, intro
and we have to forgive him the conceit.
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All-in-all this is a very enjoyable book, which seems to assemble a selection of 50 iconic buildings without it becoming an over-exposed iconic 50. Split into four sections – iconic, city, practical, and future – the book takes its projects from across the globe, taking in some of the world’s finest architects to explore technological and aesthetic concerns. |
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The Drawing Book
Edited by Tania Kovats,
Black Dog Publishing, £34.95.
Collecting diverse works from a diverse range of people, The Drawing Book is
a journey through the history of mark-making edited by artist Tania Kovats. It’s a selection which, she admits, is not to be seen in any way as conclusive.
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Freight Train Graffiti
Roger Gastman, Darin Rowland and Ian Sattler Thames & Hudson, £14.95
Freight Train Graffiti is a book made by graffiti lovers for graffiti lovers.
Authors Gastman, Rowland and Sattler, who are all involved in the thriving USA graffiti scene, have put together this comprehensive collection of graffiti designs.
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The Furniture Of Carlo Mollino
Fulvio Ferrarri and Napoleone Ferrari
Phaidon Press, £45
For admirers of rare Italian design, this comprehensive guide to Carlo Mollino’s furniture should be an invaluable purchase. The Italian architect produces exquisite designs, the limited availability and excellence of which led to one of his tables being sold for $3,824,000 at auction. |
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