Objects of desires. Design and society since 1750. Forty A.

In the book “Objects of desire”, Adrian Forty conducts a historical study of design and its significance in society. With examples from various areas of human life, he clearly demonstrates that the appearance and structure of the things around us cannot be considered only as the fruit of the designer’s talent and imagination - the design appears under the influence of complex social processes, is inextricably linked with the production economy, and sometimes with the state politics. The book will be interesting to a wide range of readers, but first of all to designers and everyone who has at least any relation to design.