With his residential buildings, office blocks, schools and factories, Boris Velikovsky (1878-1937) made a definitive contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture. His early constructions, such ...
In 1902 the magazine 'Documents of Modern Applied Arts' was introduced for the first time. It was published until 1908, comprising five series divided ...
Sin and temptation, wisdom and deceit, death and damnation, but also eternity and renewal, protection and healing power- the symbolic meanings of the snake ...
Mit den Elementen der Natur schuf der Gartenarchitekt Le Notre einen künstlichen Kosmos und suggerierte dessen Grenzenlosigkeit. Der Autor spannt den Bogen von den ...
Dutch jewellery and product designer Gijs Bakker (b. 1942) has been a prominent figure in international jewellery for over forty years. He has been ...
The Padua School is emanated from the 'Instituto Pietro Selvatico'. The distinctive features of this jewellery are the use of gold reminiscent of the ...
Balance" is the theme of this year's Baden-Wurttemberg International Design Award: the products selected must offer consumers and viewers inner harmony and equilibrium. They ...
Bernhard Schobinger is a megastar of the contemporary jewellery scene. Whereas his earlier jewellery reveals the influence of Punk, more recent pieces tend to ...
In the 1960s Friedrich Becker began to create the first kinetic jewellery objects, pieces that respond to movements of the body. This documentation is ...
This extraordinary book catalogues 122 recent acquisitions by the Staatliches Museum in Munich of outstanding examples of contemporary design from the period 1990-1995 in ...
