‘Every Thing Design’ | Hatje Cantz

GIFT IDEA | With its 800 pages covering 700 design objects, “Every Thing Design“, from Hatje Cantz publishers, makes as great a doorstop as it does a beautiful coffee table book.

Designed by legendary book designer Irma Boom, the tome is the catalog from a show of the same name earlier this year at Zurich’s Gestaltung Museum, but rather than an afterthought, the book holds its own as a compendium of  a staggering array of print works, consumer products, fashion, and furniture from the museum’s collection.

Through images and accompanying texts, “Every Thing Design” touches on such questions such as: what is design?  What determines an object’s worth?  How have attitudes towards design changed in the more than 125 years of the museum’s existence?   Essays by Boom, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, London’s Royal College of Art’s Glenn Adamson and others discuss such questions, in this book which moves far beyond mere eye candy.

“Every Thing Design” certainly makes a great gift for the design lover on your list this holiday season.  It can be purchased from D.A.P., Amazon, or your local bookshop (see stores on D.A.P.).

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