Tom Dixon

Jane Alison

Anna Ferrari

Striking photographs and archive drawings trace the history and the famous design features of the flats and the multi-arts centre, the largest in Europe. The book includes commentaries by Tom Dixon, Mike Leigh, Jonathan Meades, Eric Parry and Vivienne Westwood. This book celebrates the Barbican Estate, one of London's most important Modernist landmarks.

life, history, architecture

Barbican

Charles Jencks

Bruce Weber

Barbara Kruger

Leigh Bowery

Jenny Holzer

Ron Arad

Andrea Branzi

Gilbert & George.

Daniel Weil

Boris Sipek

Tommaso Grattoni

King Kong

Shiro Kuramata

Massimo Iosa Ghini

Denis Santachiara

Fashion And The Underground In The 80S

Excess

Ashley Cameron

Furniture designer Tom Dixon aims to extend the use of industrial design and how it can be adapted in the home. This book shows each room in the home in at least two different ways, with a create the look approach that shows how industrial design can bring with it an aesthetic of colour and fun as well as high quality. Key consumer concerns such as multi-functional design, recycling and an emphasis on mobility, are addressed throughout. A comprehensive sources section is designed to help the reader access the products shown, with products to suit all budgets.

Rethink

Dixonary is the first comprehensive book on one of Britains best known and most highly regarded product designers, in his own words and with a wealth of illustrations showing the inspiration behind each work he has produced in almost 30 years of design. Self-taught and a child of the punk era, Dixon (born 1959) founded his own studio in 1991 and became Head of Design at Habitat in 1998 before reestablishing his own brand, Tom Dixon a lighting and furniture design and manufacturing company in 2002. He has also been Creative Director at Artek, the Finnish furniture company founded by Alvar and Aino Aalto. Dixons artistic career began when he discovered the pleasures of welding while repairing damaged motorcycle frames; he went on to specialize in welded salvage furniture and became known as a designer when his S-Chair was manufactured by Guido Cappellini in 1991. Dixons previous books include Rethink (2002), an analysis of each room in the modern home, and The Interior World of Tom Dixon (2008), a book of ideas and observations on design, materials and style. Dixonary is the first complete monograph of this British innovator.

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Dixonary

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