PUBLICATIONS / 521 Design
Sotheby's Important 2oth Century Design catalog
June 2007
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Ultimate New York Design
teNeues, 2006
"New York is known as the city that never sleeps and it’s a non-stop source of design innovation. This volume covers state-of-the-art New York design from fields such as architecture, interiors,... product design and lighting innovation. With numerous examples from both native New Yorkers, and designers who work in New York, this compendium of design showcases all that’s cutting-edge in the Big Apple."
Includes the Hive Shelving Unit, Hive H2, Joseph Felt Bench, 40 Sq. Yrds Bench, One Cabinet, Hollow Table, LowTek Table.
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Young Designers Americas
Daab, 2006
Includes the Hive H2, Hive Shelving Unit, 40 Sq. Yrds Bench, Joseph Felt Bench, Hollow Table, LowTek Table.
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RotoVision, 2006
"A first in decoding and exploring the language of pattern alongside inspirational material for designers Communicating with Pattern: Stripes is a stunning collection of striped design from the worlds’ of textiles, fashion, interiors, architecture, graphics, and product and industrial design. This inspirational sourcebook digs below the aesthetic value of pattern to unearth the deeper visual language communicated through patterns. From Adidas trainers to City pin-stripes and share-dealers’ shirts, from barcodes to football kits, stripes signify identity, membership, belonging and allegiance – the “old school tie”, the Stars and Stripes and military rankings – but they can also be fun, bright, childlike and bold eg: toothpaste, circus tents and candy canes. In art, stripes stimulate the eye in the work of Jasper Johns, Bridget Riley and Mark Rothko, while in fashion they can be both formal and rebellious – witness brands as diverse as John Paul Gaultier, Mary Quant, Gucci and Paul Smith. Communicating with Pattern: Stripes explores the graphic language of stripes, shows how they can be used to target a market, being both traditional and tribal. It launches a new series for designers from every discipline, which will offer a complete vocabulary of pattern as visual communication."
Includes the Joseph Felt Bench
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Laurence King/Abbeville Press, 2005
"In this, the twentieth edition of the leading international showcase of domestic design, guest editor and acclaimed Dutch designer Marcel Wanders surveys the world of design and identifies new, original and interesting work in the areas of furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and products. His eclectic selection ranges from packaging for lipsticks and disposable underwear to a loft cube and inflatable mobile office space. The latest technologies are also featured, including a washing machine from Dyson, Apple’s mini iPod, a new robotic dog from Sony, and the world’s first intelligent shoe, created by Adidas."
Includes the Hive H2.
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The Design Encyclopedia
Museum of Modern Art, 2004
The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design, reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation, with an international team of design experts, The Encyclopedia sets out to provide the factual framework of a discipline whose own historical accounting of itself is still relatively young. (By way of contrast, art history has existed as a scholarly discipline for over two centuries, and has produced a fairly comprehensive record of itself in that time period.) Only once before has a similarly comprehensive overview of the history of design been attempted--in 1994, also by Mel Byars. The Encyclopedia is about design, of course, but these days "design" seems to encompass almost everything, from magazine layouts and sweatshirts to animatronic flower gardens and heart pumps, not to mention the more, abstract "information design." Here, however, design is considered only in its concrete application to functional objects, thus crossing with craft, decorative arts, and industrial design, but distinguishing itself from fine art and theory. The result is 832 pages covering the last 130 years in the history of the design of furniture, lighting, fabrics, ceramics, glassware, metalware, objects in a range of other materials, and mechanical, electrical, and electronic appliances, as well as automobiles and some inventions. There are separate entries for designers and craftspeople, design studios, consortiums and partnerships, noteworthy manufacturers, significant historical periods and styles, and materials. Entries, 3, 600 in all, are self-contained and organized alphabetically, and include cross-references. Information is an amalgamation of data gathered from a vast number of primary and secondary sources. With over 700 full-color illustrations, most of which are drawn from the MoMA collection, the remainder from Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen in Munich and Hamburg or directly from designers or manufacturers, this publication is an invaluable, definitive compendium of the world of design over the last century and a half.
Includes the Joseph Felt Bench.
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Bent Ply : The Art of Plywood Furniture
Princeton Architectural Press, 2003
Bent Ply is the first book devoted to plywood in modern design. The book consists of three parts: the first, an illustrated history of plywood (tracing its origins to ancient Egypt, circa 2900 BC); the second, an annotated journal of the making of a piece of bent plywood furniture, from the forest to the showroom. And finally, a compendium of designs from past and present [including 521 Design's Hive Shelving Unit]. Bent Ply contains numerous illustrations of the classics of bent ply design, including furniture from Alvar Aalto, Michael Thonet, and Charles and Ray Eames, and examples of its appropriation by the military. John F. Kennedy's PT109 boat and the DeHavilland "Mosquito" were both fabricated from plywood. Anyone interested in furniture design, woodworking, or materials will be fascinated by Bent Ply. Dung Ngo is author of American Contemporary Furniture. Eric Pfeiffer is head designer for Offi, a home and home office furniture company specializing in bent plywood.
Includes the Hive Shelving Unit.
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International Design Yearbook 18
Abbeville Press, 2003
"Covering the best and most innovative furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and products created over the past eighteen months by both well-known designers and new names from around the world, this year's striking selections have been made by the acclaimed New York-based furniture and product designer Karim Rashid."
Includes the Joseph Felt Bench
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Furniture Design
teNeues, 2002
Includes the Hive Shelving Unit, 32/30, Joseph Felt Bench, One Cabinet, Ghost Table, Hollow Table, LowTek Table.
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Other
The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson
Chronicle Books, 1995 / Revised 2000
Features artwork and photography by Chris Ferebee
