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Ich wollte ja weniger Bücher kaufen. Aber ich frage euch im Beben, wer könnte bei dieser Phaidon-Ausgabe von Heine auf dem #Bücherflohmarkt widerstehen?

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🍓 Vitamin Txt explores the use of words in contemporary art
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
by James Dyer IG: @orlz_well_
at #JarretFuller 's #scratchingthesurface
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A New Book Branches Out Across 3,500 Years to Explore Our Enchantment with Trees
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A New Book Branches Out Across 3,500 Years to Explore Our Enchantment with Trees — Colossal

Spanning 3,500 years of art, science, culture, and history, 'Tree' surveys the awe-inspiring beauty and romance of trees.

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In case you ever need to buy a designer a book they will love and cherish, this would be a very good choice

#Phaidon has published the "definitive history" of #Braun and the book is packed with photos of some of the most iconic, and influential, products from the last century

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🗼 Phaidon’s survey of the art of video games evokes wonder and nostalgia
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Legendary tattoo artist Dr. Woo on his Venice-inspired collaboration with Golden Goose

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Ten lesser-known designs by women from the past century

Architect Jane Hall's Woman Made book celebrates the work of over 200 women designers from the past century. The author picks 10 items designed by lesser-known women from the book.

Illustrated with images of objects made by female designers, including Zaha Hadid and Ray Eames, Hall's book charts 100 years of work using a simple A-Z structure that focuses on one product per designer.

The book serves as an encyclopedia of household objects made by women. According to Hall, the book aims "trace how women's roles have changed throughout the 20th and 21st century".

Woman Made: Great Women Designers includes designers from over 50 countries around the world and with products made by both household names and lesser-known women.

"I wanted it to be as far-reaching as possible in a way that a lot of other books of the same ilk don't really offer or don't really attempt to do," Hall told Dezeen.

"Often these narratives can end up being a little bit one-sided, or just creating a well-known history of women that already exists, so hopefully there are quite a few surprises in this book," said the designer.

Hall is co-founder of Turner Prize-winning architecture studio Assemble. Below, she chooses 10 projects by women designers from her book, most of whom she believes are relatively unknown.

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Elio light, 2020, by Utharaa Zacharias

"Originally from Kochi in southern India, co-founder of Soft Geometry, Utharaa Zacharias moved to New Delhi to study product design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, where she met co-founder, Palaash Chaudhary.

"Describing New Delhi as 'ripe with inspiration, materials, tools, and ingenuity', Zacharias and Chaudhary went on to study furniture design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the US. The Elio Light was inspired by a photo series capturing the interplay between light and transparency on glass, water, skin, and even dust."

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Watering can, 1955, by Hedwig Bollhagen

"At 20 years old while still a student at a technical college, Hedwig Bollhagen became the supervisor of an entire department of 'paint girls' in a stoneware ceramics factory near Berlin.

"Bollhagen created simple, affordable ceramics and in 1934 became the artistic director of a ceramic workshop previously owned by Bauhaus ceramicist Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein.

"The ceramic 766 Watering Can is notable for its absence of a handle, instead featuring two ergonomic indentations. Despite her influential legacy, Bollhagen herself described her work as 'just pots'."

Photo by Archivo Privato Gegia Bronzini

Striped fabric, 1964, by Gegia Bronzini

"Gegia Bronzini, fascinated by the work of the female farmers in Marocco, Venice, was inspired to purchase a loom and went on to found a small weaving school there.

"She began experimenting with colour and texture, incorporating unusual materials such as broom bristles and corn husks into natural silk and linen yarns.

"The heavy silk seen here features bands of horizontal stripes in rich hues. Described in 2020 by Domus magazine as a "textile diva," Bronzini also designed furniture for notable Italian designers including Ico and Luisa Parisi."

Photo by Modest Furniture / Arne Jennard

Karelia easy chair, 1966, by Liisi Beckman

"Finnish designer Liisi Beckmann is somewhat of a mystery. Although she moved to Milan in 1957 and established a successful career designing for Italian design firms, her designs remain mostly invisible, with the exception of the Karelia easy chair designed for Zanotta in 1966.

"Its undulating form of expanded polyurethane foam covered in vinyl is inspired by the coves of Karelia in Finland where Beckmann grew up. Beckmann's designs from this period are now held in the Helsinki Design Museum."

Photo by Design by Leva Kaleja

Milo chair, 2018, by Marie Burgos

"Marie Burgos's furniture designs and product line are inspired by her appreciation of mid-century design and the aesthetics of both the natural landscape and built environment of the Caribbean island of Martinique, her ancestral home.

"A certified master in feng shui, Burgos pairs opposites, such as clean lines with curves, hard textures with soft, to achieve a sense of balance. The Milo Chair, for example, combines handcrafted wood legs with raspberry-hued velvet upholstery; its plush, curvy form is suggestive of a hug."

Photo by Kartell US

Componibili modular storage system,1967, by Anna Castelli Ferrieri

"Anna Castelli Ferrieri was heavily influenced by European architecture circles; she helped to organise the Congrès Internationale d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) 1949 meeting and edited the architectural and product design magazine Casabella.

"She began working for the Italian postwar Neo-Rationalist Franco Albini, whom she called her 'maestro', and his partner, Franca Helg.

"She was the first woman to graduate in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano and founded the plastic furniture fabrication company Kartell. Many of her designs are still in production, including the popular Componibili Modular Storage System."

Photo by Eliseu Cavalcante

Dune collection, 2017, by Lisa Ertel

"The Dune collection, described by designer Lisa Ertel as a family of archaic seating, is made from solid spruce wood, sandblasted to create a textured surface throwing the wood's grain into relief. This transforms the annual rings of a tree that reveal its age into a tactile surface.

"The German-born designer based the forms of Dune on traditional German Ruhsteine, stone benches placed on the side of roads where historically travellers would stop to rest and was designed while Ertel was still a student of product design at the State College of Design Center for Art and Media."

Photo by Hannah Whitaker

Kenny dining table, 2018, by Egg Collective

"Egg Collective began through informal weekly dinner meetings between its three founders, Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis, and Hillary Petrie. The trio chose the name Egg Collective to symbolise the group's creative design incubation while also referencing a naturally occurring sculptural form.

"All of their woodwork is fabricated, finished, and assembled in-house at their base in New York.

"Core designs like the Kenny Dining Table establish confident forms that are then iterated using a variety of materials, such as the walnut top and base seen here. The group frequently promotes the work of women in the industry, as organisers of the exhibition Designing Women for the non-profit arts organization NYCxDESIGN."

Photo by Blend Interiors

Counter stool, c 1970s, by Cleo Baldon

"Cleo Baldon was already the owner of a successful landscape design business, Galper-Baldon Associates, before she founded a sister company, Terra, to manufacture furniture to accompany some of the 3,000 swimming pools she herself designed across Southern California.

"Baldon drew on the ubiquitous Spanish colonial motifs of Los Angeles, combining wrought natural wood and leather upholstery, as seen in these typical Counter Stools."

Photo by George Nakashima Woodworkers

Concordia chair, 2003, by Mira Nakashima

"Mira Nakashima's pieces celebrate the knots and idiosyncrasies found in timber, reflecting the dictum of her father, George Nakashima, that there is a perfect and singular piece of wood for each design. Nakashima inherited her father's woodworking studio in 1990 after studying architecture in Tokyo.

"Her approach has introduced more angles and curves to the work of Nakashima Studios, which continues to be based on the craft-based traditions of her father with the richness and texture of wood still very much in evidence. The walnut Concordia Chair was created for a group of local chamber musicians."

The images are courtesy of Phaidon.

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Ten lesser-known designs by women from Woman Made

Jane Hall has published Woman Made, a book celebrating over 200 women product designers from the last century. The author picks 10 of these projects.

Woman Made celebrates a century of products designed by women

Architect Jane Hall has written an A to Z-style book charting the work of both iconic and unknown woman product designers over the last century, including Ray Eames and Isle Crawford.

Released by Phaidon, Woman Made: Great Woman Designers collects work from more than 200 designers hailing from over 50 countries around the world.

Woman Made was written by architect Jane Hall

The book is bound in a mint-coloured leatherette jacket by Berlin-based studio Ariane Spanier Design and features images of products designed by women in an A to Z format organised by their surnames.

"With the A to Z structure, loads of contrasts come through so you don't end up with a chronology, and you actually start to just see objects outside of the time in which they're presented," Hall told Dezeen.

"You have women across time sitting next to each other – so you've got someone like [architect] Zaha Hadid sandwiched between [Swedish designer] Greta Grossman and [American designer] Virginia Hamill, who worked in department stores. This creates really interesting juxtapositions."

It features designs by Marisa Forlani and Monica Förster

Each woman is explored through an image of one of their notable designs and an accompanying piece of text written by Hall, who is a founding member of Turner Prize-winning studio Assemble.

The book does not feature artists, fashion or graphic designers; rather, Hall explained that Woman Made focuses on functional objects that can be found in the home.

Ray Eames' 1956 Lounge Chair also is included in the book

"The home is the site where you can, in a way, trace how women's roles have changed throughout the 20th and 21st century," said the author. "So that was a nice tie-in to frame the narrative around women as designers."

Among the included work is architect and modernist furniture designer Eileen Gray's 1926 Bibendum Chair, as well as a 1947 teapot by ceramicist Edith Heath and Dutch designer Hella Jongerius' Polder Sofa from 2005.

American designer Eames' 1956 Lounge Chair also features, plus multidisciplinary designer Faye Toogood's 2014 Roly-Poly Chair and a bench from British interior and furniture designer Crawford's 2009 collection Seating for Eating.

Woman Made also aims to celebrate lesser-known figures from previous years to the present day, highlighting how female creatives have always been active in the design world, regardless of whether they receive public recognition.

Zahara Schatz and Faye Toogood are among the included designers

Hall's writing process involved narrowing the book's selection down from some 800 designers, as well as contacting the friends and family of various spotlighted creatives in order to verify and enrich her research.

Discussing the biggest changes to the lives of women designers over the last century, Hall acknowledged key developments such as industrialisation and women's suffrage as significant, while she suggested that climate change is likely to shape design's future.

Furniture by Claude Lalanne and Mira Nakashima was also chosen by Hall

"The home is one of the things that we've [women] still been tied to, and it's one reason why a lot of women suffer the most from the climate crisis," she said.

"So I think that's going to be the next big something. We don't quite know what it is yet, but it's coming," she said.

An ashtray by Esther Wood Garance Vallée's 2020 Puddle Table feature

Woman Made follows Hall's 2019 title Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women, which unpacks various architecture designed by women over the last century in a similar format.

"In a really simplistic way these books are really important because they just literally make women more visible," concluded the author.

Dr Jane Hall is an architect and author who co-founded London-based architecture collective Assemble in 2010. The studio recently made "stackable sculptures" as installations for this year's Creative Folkstone Triennial.

_The imagery is courtesy ofPhaidon. _

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Woman Made by Jane Hall celebrates a century of products designed by women

Jane Hall has published an A to Z-style book charting the work of both iconic and unknown woman product designers over the last century.