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Why Dutch Design Is so Good
An extensive and timely survey of innovative contemporary design in the Netherlands.
Aaron Betsky with Adam Eeuwens
Editions:
Price: USD$39.95
400 points- Paperback
- English
- 245 x 172 mm, 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in
- 400 pp
- 1000 colour illustrations, 100 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714848617
- ISBN-10: 0714848611
- A timely overview of innovative contemporary design in the Netherlands, an international hotbed of design creativity
- 1,000 images offer a visual sourcebook of Dutch design in all forms: architecture, urban planning, industrial design and graphic design
- Features work by acclaimed designers Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Marcel Wanders, Petra Blaisse and Jop van Bennekom, among others
- A collaboration with renowned Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom
Aaron Betsky is director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam. From 1995 to 2001 he was Curator of Architecture, Design, and Digital Projects at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he curated, among other exhibitions, "Do Normal: Recent Dutch Design" in 1998.
Adam Eeuwens is a Dutch writer living in Southern California. He is a partner in the design strategy firm, The Culture Industry, and co-curated "Do Normal" with Betsky.
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