The library
31 booksThe 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 start1000 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 referencesDomus 1928–1999, Gio Ponti (fond.). Seventy years of Gio Ponti's review: Italy inventing modern design, issue after issue.
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 IndexThe shop
The turntable, the shelf, the icons — everything is openBauhausMagdalena DrosteTaschen
Scandinavian DesignCharlotte & Peter FiellTaschen
S,M,L,XL
Ways of Seeing
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Case Study HousesElizabeth A. T. SmithTaschen
La Poétique de l'espace
Éloge de l'ombre
Espèces d'espaces
Herman Miller: A Way of LivingAmy Auscherman & al.Phaidon
Living in JapanAlex Kerr & Kathy Arlyn SokolTaschen
Interaction of Color
La laideur se vend mal
Design of the 20th Century
The Story of Eames Furniture
1000 Chairs
Domus 1928–1999
Eames
As Little Design as Possible
Le Corbusier Le Grand
Ettore Sottsass
Interiors: The Greatest Rooms of the CenturyCollectifPhaidon
Chair: 500 Designs That Matter
Charlotte Perriand : Œuvre complète
Achille Castiglioni
Storia del design italiano
Atlas of Furniture DesignVitra Design MuseumVitra Design Museum
Design as Art
The Design of Everyday Things
Memphis
Autoprogettazione?
Everything is open: the records play, the books pull out, the furniture identifies itself.
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The whole journal
Barbara Hepworth, St Ives: the Trewyn Garden-Studio, Kept As It WasL'Artiste
Richard Sapper's Tizio: The Architect's Lamp and Its CopiesThe Scan
Villa Tugendhat, Brno: Mies's Glass House and Its ChairsOpen House
Throws: wool, mohair, cashmere — winter on the sofaThe Workshop
Italian Seventies style: the pieces, the book, the album, the filmLe Style
Collecting Workshop Lamps: Gras, Jieldé and the AnonymousLa Collection
Copenhagen: Danish Design, Addresses and InstitutionsThe Notebook
Alexander Calder, Saché: The Studio and the Everyday Objects, from Toaster to MobileL'ArtisteThe Showroom — Reference No. 100
The shop's icons, gathered in a 3D room.
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