The library

31 books

The books that explain design better than we do. Shelved like a real shelf: uneven spines, a few leaning volumes, no alphabetical order.

Three ways in

Where to start
Taschen · 1997

1000 Chairs, Charlotte & Peter Fiell. The pocket repertory turned canon: a thousand chairs, a century of seating, the inventory the whole Index knows by heart.

The 102 references
Taschen · 2006

Domus 1928–1999, Gio Ponti (fond.). Seventy years of Gio Ponti's review: Italy inventing modern design, issue after issue.

Taschen · 2005

Eames, Gloria Koenig. Charles and Ray in short form: the Lounge Chair, the DSW, bent plywood — the century's most prolific studio.

The Lounge Chair in the Index

The shop

The turntable, the shelf, the icons — everything is open
Everything is open: the records play, the books pull out, the furniture identifies itself.

At the kiosk

The whole journal

The Showroom — Reference No. 100

The shop's icons, gathered in a 3D room.

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