Design. Why is this a masterpiece. 80 stories of unique items. Hodge S.

What is the secret of a successful design? How exactly are the work of outstanding designers differ from the rest? The art critic Suzi Khoj collected eighty stories of unique design finds in her book. Many things without which modern life is inconceivable-from the Polaroid camera and the Sony Walkman player to Coca-Cola® and the CED CONVERSE-were born thanks to the talent and fantasies of people who devoted themselves to the art of design. On the pages of the book, the reader will meet with Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Ron Arad, Philip Stark and many other outstanding design masters. Artists and architects, engineers and designers, they worked in different styles and adhered to different aesthetic views, but they were united by one desire: to offer the consumer a product that would be beautiful, functional, made of modern materials and inexpensive.

Suzi Hodge is a master of art history, the author of eighty books, among which “how to survive contemporary art” (2010), “Great Artists” (2010), “50 artistic ideas that everyone should know about” (2011) and “Why is yours A five -year -old baby would not have been able to: an explanation of contemporary art ”(2012).