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Age of Combustion: Notes on Automobile Design by STEPHEN BAYLEY
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Category: Reference
The automobile is the ultimate analogue machine and mankind's most ingenious, seductive and damaging invention. For over a century, cars have provided reference points for our notions of style, status and desire. In design terms, the Age of Combustion was as rich and varied as architecture's Baroque and ...Show more
Signs of Life : Why Brands Matter by Stephen Bayley
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Category: History
Nietzsche said all of life is a question of taste. And he was right. But nowadays all of life is also a question of branding. A brand is not something concocted by graphic designers and marketing consultants: it is "the intangible aspects of an intangible thing", as Massimo Vignelli (who re-branded the ...Show more
Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things by Stephen Bayley
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Category: Art
How do we define taste? The only certainty is that it shifts and changes sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-nineteenth century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of good taste as a way of codifying middleclass mores. A century later, to talk about taste had becom ...Show more
Taste: the Secret Meaning of Things - The Secret Meaning of Things by Stephen Bayley
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Category: Design
-Design-guru Stephen Bayley approaches the thorny and sometimes elitist topic of 'taste' with typical wit, drawing on his expertise in a number of fields from fashion to food -A new edition of a classic book, brought into the new millennium by Bayley's concise critique of modern design How do we define ...Show more
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