Pioneers
The ultimate selection of pioneering design classics.
Phaidon Editors
- 333 pioneering design classics from the beginning of the industrial era to the end of the Second World War
- These essential design products, that were made possible thanks to startling new inventions, discoveries and cost effective techniques, revolutionized our everyday lives and established a benchmark for great and enduring design
- From the safety-pin and the Ford T to the chairs of Michael Thonet and Frank Lloyd Wright, these products were the first to hail the beginnings of industrial design
- Selected by an international group of designers, architects, critics, curators and academics, the list includes works by anonymous inventors as well as masterworks by pioneering designers such as Christopher Dresser, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe
- Includes detailed information on the history of each object and its designer
- Illustrated with rare archival material including sketches, drawings and patents
Hardback
215 x 245 mm, 8 1/2 x 9 5/8 in
1100 pp
1000 colour illustrations
150 black and white illustrations
ISBN 9780714856650
0714856657
This volume demonstrates how the industrial revolution transformed the world of manufacturing. The technological advances it brought and the new cost-effective production techniques it utilized allowed a huge variety of goods to be affordable to ordinary people for the first time. During the nineteenth century
an incredible number of new inventions, new techniques and new materials radically altered the lives of everyday consumers. From the introduction of the first cars to the development of trains and trams, from the electric light to the telephone, standardization and industrial production had an immense impact on every aspect of human life.
The book includes both humble objects created by anonymous inventors and masterworks by such pioneering designers as Christopher Dresser, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe.
Design Classics comprised the most comprehensive collection of timeless industrial designs. The three volumes featured the 999 most innovative, beautiful and influential products created in the last 300 years, meticulously researched and selected after wide consultation with designers and design-world insiders.
Conceived and edited by Phaidon Editors