Great Designs: The World's Best Design Explored and Explained

A DK-style illustrated history: more than a hundred design classics from the 1860s to today, from Morris wallpaper to the iPad. A browsable map of the SDF's historical-social facet — how each era's forces produced the objects it's remembered by. Published by DK, this is a lavishly illustrated guide to the history of design, showcasing more than 100 groundbreaking design classics from the 1860s to the present, from William Morris wallpaper and the Swiss Army Knife to twenty-first-century icons such as the Apple iPad and Philippe Starck's Masters Chair. Each entry combines photography with explanatory pull-outs on characteristic features, and profiles explain why a design was created, for whom, and how innovations in technology and materials made it possible. The book spans product and interior design, furniture, glassware, tableware, textiles, cars, electronics and graphics.