Designers include: Alvar Aalto ; Alnoor Design ; Tadao Ando ; Appartu ; Apparatus Studio ; Anders Arhøj ; Roger Arquer ; AZ&MUT ; François Azambourg ; Ferréol Babin ; Emmanuel Babled ; Aldo Bakker ; Marta Bakowski ; Linda Bayon ; Giuseppe Bessero Belti ; Dror Benshetrit ; Thomas Bentzen ; Jakub Berdych ; Bernadotte & Kylberg ; Fulvio Bianconi ; Lara Bohinc ; Bold ; Mario Botta ; Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec ; Fernando Brizio ; Itamar Burstein ; Louise Campbell ; Cristina Celestino ; Pierre Charpin ; Karen Chekerdijian ; Jiwon Choi ; Matteo Cibic ; Claesson Kovisto Rune ; Paul Cocksedge ; Joe Colombo ; Phil Cuttance ; Jean-Christophe Clair ; Kristina Dam ; Lorenzo Damiani ; Sandra Davolio ; Dechem Studio ; Paolo Dell'Elce ; Guillaume Delvigne ; Design By O ; DIMORESTUDIO ; Tom Dixon; Jean-Francois D'Or ; Sophie Dries ; Dubokk ; Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance ; Anna Ehrner ; Kjell Engman ; Jomi Evers ; Antonio Facco ; Michal Fargo ; Jean-Baptiste Fastrez ; Antonoio Forteleoni ; Tina Frey ; Front Design ; Studio Furthermore ; Frank Gehry ; Yiannis Ghikas ; Christian Ghion ; Glithero ; Stine Goya ; Benjamin Graindorge ; Pawel Grobelny ; Charlie Guda ; The Haas Brothers ; Alfredo Häberli ; Zaha Hadid ; Simon Hasan ; Hattern ; Sebastian Herkner ; Olivier van Herpt ; Pepe Heykoop ; Éric Hibelot ; Hallgeir Homstvedt ; Robin van Hontem ; Ilot Ilov ; Hella Jongerius ; Joogii ; Éric Jourdan ; Chris Kabel ; Yukihiro Kaneuchi ; Klein & Schön ; Kókili Projects ; Krafla ; Hanna Krüger ; Arik Levy ; Tomás Libertíny Marie Liebhardt ; Lyngby Porcelæn ; Enzo Mari ; Tuomas Markunpoika ; Nir Meiri ; Vanessa Mitrani ; Tomoko Mizu ; Ted Muehling ; Gareth Neal ; Nendo ; Luca Nichetto ; Nousaku ; Fabio Novembre ; Numéro ; Studio Oddness ; Itay Ohaly ; Erik Olovsson ; Ontwerpduo ; Anna Elzer Oscarson ; Milan Pekař ; Omer Polak ; Atelier Polyhedre ; Lambert Rainville ; Cédric Ragot ; Christine Rathmann ; Moreno Ratti ; Aneta Regel ; Louise Roe ; Rosenthal Creative Center ; Adrien Rovero ; Studio R7B ; Studio R S W ; Scholten & Baijings ; Héctor Serrano ; Marcel Sigel ; Skogsberg & Smart ; SNUG.STUDIO ; Gert-Jan Soepenberg ; Kateryna Sokolova ; Studio Wieki Somers ; Ettore Sottsass ; Mattias Stenberg ; Marie-Aurore Stiker-Metral ; Stilleben ; Stoft Studio ; Falke Svatun ; Leonardo Talarico ; Hans Tan ; Bruce and Stéphanie Tharp ; THINKK Studio ; Renaud Thiry ; Vincent Tordjman ; Nicholas Triboulot ; Shikai Tseng ; Aureli Tu ; UAU project ; Paolo Ulian ; Patricia Urquiola ; Bertil Vallien ; Anna Varendorff ; Maxim Velčovský ; Paolo Venini ; Michaël Verheyden ; VJEMY ; Marcel Wanders ; Göran Wärff ; Guilherme Wentz ; Thomas Wenzel ; Tapio Wirkkala ; David Wiseman ; Thaddeus Wolfe ; Richard Woods ; Jeff Zimmerman ; Clara von Zweigbergk ; Matteo Zorzenoni.
Contents:
Organic -- Geometric -- Architectonic -- Sculptural -- With a Twist -- Designers A -- Z.
Summary:
In the hands of experienced art and design historian Agata Toromanoff, Vases showcases the unprecedented scope and quality of today's state-of-the-art vases. From Ted Muehling's sleek, gilded "Goose Egg" to Glithero's botanical cyanotypes on ceramic and Joogii's color-shifting prisms covered in dichroic film, there are no limits to what contemporary designers can make out of what is fundamentally a container for holding flowers. An essential sourcebook for collectors, designers, and anyone with an interest in interior decoration, this book includes important mid-century to late twentieth-century vases and focuses primarily on the twenty-first-century scene, with a wide international selection of emerging designers from the younger generation. These designers translate their original visions into a variety of forms, blurring the lines between design, sculpture, and architecture. The pieces featured in Vases are contemporary works of art, worthy of inclusion in museum collections--where many already reside. -- Publisher.
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