Railing is the first book by Taiwanese product and furniture designer yangshueiyuan, tracing a humble piece of street hardware into a furniture collection.
About This Book
Across Taiwan, public railings in parks, sports centres, footpaths, private institutions and even airports are assembled with a versatile ball-and-socket joint. yangshueiyuan noticed how this overlooked metal component lets ironworkers improvise flexible, site-specific structures that combine function and appearance on the same line—and made it the starting point for The Railing Collection.
The book combines his street photographs, 3D modelling and a detailed record of the process from early mock-ups through to factory production. It includes a specially made manual for ironsmiths and a series of object renderings that capture his less directed design thinking. Printed on a range of paper stocks, it unfolds the making of each object layer by layer.
Key Features
- Street photography, 3D renderings and process documentation in one volume
- Includes a separate manual written for ironsmiths
- Printed on varied paper stocks
- Designed by HOUTH
What You'll Discover
- How the ball-and-socket joint underpins Taiwan's everyday railing systems
- The metalworking techniques local ironworkers use to adapt them on site
- How a found street detail became The Railing Collection of chairs, bar stools and low stools
- A way of finding design in unrefined, ordinary things
About the Designer
yangshueiyuan is a product and furniture designer based in Taiwan. Through a series of design investigations he takes apart and reassembles everyday objects, working closely with industrial processes to extend what existing things and traditional manufacturing methods can do.
Specifications
- Format: Softback
- Dimensions: 145 × 210 mm
- Pages: 100
- Language: Chinese and English
- ISBN: 9789869862851
- Publisher: pon ding
Perfect For: Industrial and furniture designers, observers of the street, and anyone interested in vernacular craft and East Asian design.