3D Design

Gaetano Pesce by Glenn Adamson This volume on Gaetano Pesce's incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer's own words. Glenn Adamson conducted the wide-ranging interview with Pesce on which this book is based, drawing out new stories and insights, as well as providing an introduction that thoroughly contextualizes Pesce's unique position in contemporary art and design.

Objects of Desire by Mateo Kries; Tanja Cunz Surrealism expanded our reality by drawing upon myths, dreams, and the subconscious as sources of artistic inspiration. Beginning in the 1930s, the movement made a crucial impact on design, and it continues to inspire designers to this day. "Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design" documents this fascinating conversation. It includes numerous essays and a comprehensive selection of images which traces these reciprocal exchanges by juxtaposing exemplary artworks and design objects. With works by Gae Aulenti, André Breton, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Dunne & Raby, Ray Eames, Max Ernst, Front Design, Iris van Herpen, Friedrich Kiesler, Shiro Kuramata, René Magritte, Lee Miller, Carlo Mollino, Isamu Noguchi, Odd Matter, Meret Oppenheim, Mimi Parent, Gaetano Pesce, Man Ray, Robert Stadler, Studio Wieki Somers, among others.

Home Futures by Eszter Steierhoffer; Justin McGuirk; Deyan Sudjic (Foreword by) "Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow"--accompanying a major Design Museum exhibition of the same title--explores several different attitudes toward domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home.