Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible
London: Phaidon Press, 2011. Hardcover. Quarto. 390 (10)pp. Original textured white buckram with blind-stamped lettering on cover, green on spine, in original texture stiff, glossy dustjacket with green lettering on cover and spine. Light green endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Title page printed in red and gray. Illustrated half-titles. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of photographs and drawings. The publication contains chapters on the Braun Manufacturing company, the Braun Archive, the Kronberg House, Dieter Rams at Home, Vitsoe Manufacturing company, among other topics. Contains index and illustrated timeline in various colors at rear. Dieter Rams, born 1932, was the head of design at Braun Manufacturing Company from 1961 to 1995.
"Dieter Rams is one if the most influential product designers of the twentieth century. Even if you don't immediately recognize his name, you have almost certainly used one of the radios, clocks, lighters, juicers, shelves or hundreds of other products he designed. He is famous not only for his vast array of well-formed products, but for his remarkably prescient ideas about the correct function of design in the sometimes messy and out-of-control world we inhabit today. These ideas are summed up in his 'ten principles' of good design, the last of which is that good design is as little design as possible." (Publisher). Dustjacket with very light wear along edges but one 3/4 inch closed tear at bottom front cover. Binding with two light bumps at bottom of front cover. Very good- to fine condition. Item #52065
ISBN: 9780714849188
Price: $275.00