Description
Phaidon Press, Published 2003. Hardcover, [148] pp (unpaginated); 25 cm; First Edition; illustrated throughout with color photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition, no dust jacket as issued. Glossy pictorial paper over flexible boards, with a hint of toning to front cover. Mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. First monograph on Dutch designer Hella Jongerius (b. 1963), who founded Jongeriuslab in Rotterdam in 1993 after emerging through Droog Design. Built as one continuous interview with Louise Schouwenberg that begins on the front cover and ends on the back, closing with the line "(A conversation that might have taken place.)" Two Schouwenberg essays are set into the sequence, and documentary photographs by Joke Robaard with Maarten Theuwkens follow the objects into factories, shops and museums. Projects are keyed to the institutions that commissioned them: Silk Menagerie for Hermes and the Design Museum London, Bed in Business for the Centraal Museum Utrecht, Walk Inside with Jurgen Bey for a home for the visually impaired elderly at Wolfheze, Giant Prince for the Frans Hals Museum, and Weekly Dinner, Power Patch, Knitted Lamp, Soft Vase and the Kasese Sheep Chair for the Museum of Modern Art. Design concept by COMA, Amsterdam and New York. Published four years before Vitra made her its art director of colours and materials, and a decade before she and Rem Koolhaas redesigned the North Delegates' Lounge at the United Nations.