1000 Design Classics is the definitive single-volume survey of product design history, tracing 1,000 objects from 1663 to the present day — from anonymous everyday items to canonical works by Eames, Rams, Wegner, and a newly expanded roster of contemporary designers.
About This Book
Drawn from Phaidon's celebrated three-volume Phaidon Design Classics, this revised and expanded edition consolidates the most innovative, iconic, and influential products ever designed into one large-format reference. One hundred new entries broaden the scope considerably, incorporating a more diverse range of designers — including a greater representation of female practitioners — and products from the past fifteen years. Each of the 1,000 entries is accompanied by detailed imagery and a contextual essay examining the object, its history, and its maker. The result is an authoritative survey of product design that reads as both a working reference and a sustained argument for why industrial and domestic objects matter.
Key Features
- 592 pages of full-colour product photography and individual design histories
- Features work by Charles and Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Dieter Rams, Richard Sapper, Hans J. Wegner, Florence Knoll, Le Corbusier, Alvar and Aino Aalto, Isamu Noguchi, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Lani Adeoye, Faye Toogood, and Lindsey Adelman, among others
- Notable entries include the Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen and the Bird Zero e-scooter
- Published by Phaidon, ISBN: 9781838665470
What You'll Discover
- How product design has evolved across more than three centuries, from 1663 to the present day, traced through 1,000 individual objects
- The expanded canon of contemporary design, with 100 new entries spotlighting designers from underrepresented backgrounds and recent innovations of the last fifteen years
- The stories behind both celebrated classics and emerging work — each entry contextualising its object within the broader history of making and manufacture
- The tension between anonymous, everyday design and the named authorship of lauded designer-objects, and what that distinction reveals about how we value material culture
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 592
- Dimensions: 310 x 230mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781838665470
- Publisher: Phaidon
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Product and industrial designers, architects with an interest in material culture, design historians, students of design history, and serious collectors building a reference library.