The uncommon life of common objects : essays on design and the everyday / Akiko Busch.

Main entry:

Busch, Akiko. author.

Title & Author:

The uncommon life of common objects : essays on design and the everyday / Akiko Busch.

Publication:

New York : Metropolis Books, 2005
©2005

Description:

159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Foreword / Susan S. Szenasy -- Introduction -- The Stroller -- The Cereal box -- The Backpack -- The Desk -- The Mailbox -- The Vegetable peeler -- The Telephone -- The Refrigerator -- The Snowboard --The Camera -- The Medicine cabinet -- The White lawn chairs -- Afterword: Golden slipcover.

Summary:

"In The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, Akiko Busch devotes a chapter each to twelve objects, looking at the reasons these items took the forms they did and discussing how everyday things acquire their significance through daily human experience."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

193304506X (hardcover)
9781933045061 (hardcover)

Subject:

Busch, Akiko.
Industrial design.
Design.
industrial design.
design (discipline)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243963
Call No.: BIB 173660
Status: Available

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