Gifts for Architects

Bauhaus Print - A1

£55.00

Colour White/Blue White Yellow

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White/Blue

White Yellow

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Large limited edition posters by artist Sascha Lobe, to celebrate 100 years since the founding of the Bauhaus movement Exclusive to the Design Museum Numbered edition of 52 Signed by the artist

Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain

£25.00

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In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building (as it came to be known), was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question 'How do we want to live now?' it was England's first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced for him and other clients during their brief sojourn in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and the infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand, working for Le Corbusier's practice, who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930 The book is beautifully illustrated with archive photography - much of which is previously unseen - and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive In Spring 2018, the Isokon building and Breuer, Gropius and Moholy-Nagy were honoured with a Blue Plaque from English Heritage. 2019 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Bauhaus, so the book is a timely celebration of European design

Moon Chalk

£10.00 £15.00

Style Cosmic Dot Lunar Line Satellite Circle

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Cosmic Dot

Lunar Line

Satellite Circle

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Push, pull, rotate and roll on any chalk friendly surface to create murals and sidewalk doodles Render shooting stars, lunar landscapes and starry nights from dots lines and curves Moon Chalk is made from 100% chalk, it easily washes off any surface is non-toxic and will defy gravity if used on the surface of the moon

MARS AR Notebook

£22.00

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Mars has captured our imagination for generations and is now the focus of a fleet of spacecraft exploring its deepest secrets and grandest features. These features are now yours to explore with Augmented Reality. Wake up Ares, Greek God of War, experience 360° rotation of Mars from a close angle, and feel this beautiful planets surface The Martian landscape is yours to explore. Visit Mount Olympus Mons, the highest mountain in the solar system. Take a journey to the Valles Marineris, the longest canyon in the solar system. Meet the Martian Rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, as they rove across the planet Embedded black ribbon bookmark Back cover folder to store documents

Acorn Vase

£28.00

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Innovative and beautifully designed the Acorn Vase allows you to witness a simple acorn you have picked grow into a magnificent oak tree Perfect for urban dwellers, tree lovers, inquisitive children and design enthusiasts to bring the magic of nature into their home and hopefully oak trees for future generations The vase includes a 20-page handbook, which guides the user with detailed steps for germinating the seed and growing an acorn in the Acorn Vase, a handbook with helpful instructions, an oak tree field guide, as well as artistic and literary inspirations to inspire others to plant an oak tree for future generations Also available in the larger Avocado Vase

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet Catalogue

£19.95

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Edited by Justin McGuirk, Andrew Nahum and Eleanor Watson  Designed by Studio Julia  Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great challenges of our time. It will be an extraordinary technological feat, but also a feat of design. This is the first book dedicated to designing for the Red Planet. From life on a spacecraft to survival on Mars’ inhospitable surface, new forms of clothing, farming and architecture will be needed. This volume looks at the real work designers and architects are generating now – as well as more speculative proposals of what this future might look like. Some ask whether we should go to Mars at all, while others argue that the rigours of such a mission would force us to design a waste-free way of life.  Illustrated with more than 300 images and featuring original essays by leading thinkers in their field, Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet includes projects by NASA, SpaceX and the European Space Agency, as well as new work by designers and architects including HASSELL, Konstantin Grcic, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and RÆBURN. It also includes an interview with the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who addresses why speculative design is the ideal discipline for imagining the ‘material grammar' of a life on Mars

Architecture of Closed Worlds

£30.00

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What do outer space capsules, submarines, and office buildings have in common? Each is conceived as a closed system: a self-sustaining physical environment demarcated from its surroundings by a boundary that does not allow for the transfer of matter or energy Contemporary discussions about global warming, recycling, and sustainability have emerged as direct conceptual constructs related to the study and analysis of closed systems. From the space program to countercultural architectural groups experimenting with autonomous living, this publication documents a disciplinary transformation and the rise of a new environmental consensus in the form of a synthetic naturalism It presents an archive of 39 historical living prototypes from 1928 to the present that put forth an unexplored genealogy of closed resource regeneration systems Prototypes are presented through unique discursive narratives with historical images, and each includes new analysis in the form of a feedback drawing that problematises the language of environmental representation by illustrating loss, derailment, and the production of new substances and atmospheres

The Enduring Legacy of Weimar: Graphic Design & New Typography 1919-1933

£45.00

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Graphic Design as an artistic genre wasn't universally accepted until the early 20th century. This striking book focuses on the pivotal years of 1928-1931 to show how fifty artists redefined the field and helped create modern graphic design Art historian and graphic artist Alston Purvis provides a concise and engaging overview of the dawn of modern graphic design and the artistic possibilities that were laid bare in a seismically shifting Europe. He explores how a variety of burgeoning and established movements contributed to the innovations of graphic design such as the German Dadaists, the Bauhaus School, and the European avant-garde artists. He looks at how groundbreaking trends in typography, the rise of consumerism, and a new focus on schools of graphic design combined to create a new language of design that is still in use today Featuring the designs of 50 pioneering artists, such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and El Lissitzky, this book shows how their work in colour, typography, and composition broke conventions and set new standards in a seminal period of graphic design