More than four hundred color photographs capture the innovative contributions of Scandinavian designers to the stylish evolution of contemporary furniture, housewares, textiles, home accessories, and consumer electronics. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: The newest addition to the successful Compact Design Portfolio series focuses on a designer whose work is as visionary as it is recognizable; Karim Rashid, whose popular designs -‑ found everywhere from Target to Nambe -- have made him a household name...read more

Product Description: The newest addition to the successful Compact Design Portfolio series focuses on a designer whose work is as visionary as it is recognizable; Arne Jacobsen, a midcentury modern master whose Ant Chair now outnumbers the population of his native Denmark...read more

Product Description: Continuing to put great classic and contemporary design within everyones grasp, Chronicle Books proudly delivers the next four installments of the popular Compact Design Portfolio. Written by top design critics, these books cover modern masters whose work ranges from the cozily domestic to the aggressively avant-garde: Eva Zeisel, whose elegantly democratic housewares span a 70-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lamp and lighting design to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce, whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the impresario behind the Marshmallow sofa and other Herman Miller classics...read more

Product Description: The stylish little books in our new Compact Design Portfolio series put great classic and contemporary design within everyone's grasp. Launching with four leading designers of the twentieth century--Richard Sapper, Michael Graves, Eileen Gray, and Jean Prouve--these exciting new books defy the idea that design is inaccessible...read more

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Brings together a collection of some of the most significant contributions to contemporary furniture design as created by such artists as Angela Adams, Harry Allen, Karim Rashid, Blu Dot, and Jeff Covey. (view table of contents)

This first in a new series of books examining the work of young furniture designers from different cities focuses on the characteristics of furniture, decorative objects, and utilitarian elements from designers in the Bay Area.