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The uncommon life of common objects : essays on design and the everyday

Title
The uncommon life of common objects : essays on design and the everyday / Akiko Busch.
Author
Busch, Akiko.
Publication
  • New York : Metropolis Books, 2005
  • ©2005

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Description
159 pages : color illustrations; 21 cm
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.
Subject
  • Busch, Akiko
  • Busch, Akiko
  • Industrial design
  • Design
  • industrial design
  • design (discipline)
  • Design
  • Industrial design
Contents
Stroller -- Cereal box -- Backpack -- Desk -- Mailbox -- Vegetable peeler -- Telephone -- Refrigerator -- Snowboard -- Camera -- Medicine cabinet -- White lawn chairs -- Golden slipcover.
ISBN
  • 193304506X
  • 9781933045061
LCCN
2004030307
OCLC
  • ocm57349066
  • 57349066
  • SCSB-14536553
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library