Skin, surface substance and design - Couverture souple

Ellen, Lupton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856693066 ISBN 13 : 9781856693066

Editeur : Laurence King Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

The surfaces cited in this volume are examples of the limits of technology in surface treatment of everyday objects. The skin is the line between the hidden inside and the observable outside. Examples range from furniture to fashion and architecture.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between the hidden inside and the outside we experience. Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world. Designers today manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity as well as their own behaviors and identities.

Skin features the work of such notable designers and architects as Greg Lynn, Petra Blaisse, SPEEDO, Morphosis, Ross Lovegrove, Marcel Wanders, and many others. It also contains essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces, and a glossary of surface materials. It reminds us that beauty is indeed only skin-deep. This book accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ellen Lupton, with essays by Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, Grace Jeffers, Available now in a paperback edition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton, describing products and projects that have been produced since the book's initial publication. Skin presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that expand the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Laurence King Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856693066
• ISBN 13: 9781856693066
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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