Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible by Sophie Lovell, with a foreword by Jonathan Ive, former chief design officer of Apple. 1st ed., hardcover with dust jacket, Phaidon Press, New York and London, 2011. 8.5 x 11, pp. 400 with 320 illustrations. Superb design by Kobi Benezri.
Phaidon: The definitive monograph on Dieter Rams, one of the most influential product designers of the twentieth century. As head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995, Dieter Rams created some of the twentieth century’s most iconic objects. Rams’s life and work are indelibly linked to his thoughts about how people live, and how they can live better. Products he designed in the 1960s are still produced and sold today, and his ideas on good design continue to inspire designers and consumers.
Includes detailed text covering Rams’s life, the intellectual context in which he worked, his designs for Braun and Vitsœ, and the ideas and lectures he developed as an advocate for good design. Sketches and photographs of finished products and prototypes provide insight into Rams’s design process, diverse archival material gives a complete picture of his life and work, and specially commissioned photographs of Dieter Rams’s house and the Braun archive provide an exclusive glimpse of the world’s most complete collection of Rams’s designs.
A fine, unread hardcover in its' original, very good jacket with a hint of wear and light toning along the top edge. Highly recommended!
