Book: DEsigners On Designers By Susan Gray

Designers on Designers : The Inspiration Behind Great Interiors

From the Back Cover

Great design doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and Designers on Designers proves that behind every bright idea is a startling inspiration. Susan Gray lets the world’s top designers tell their own stories about who and what influenced their work. The result is funny and poignant, wry and informed. And truly inspired. — Mitchell Owens, ELLE Décor

The personal inspiration we gain from others in our field makes for fascinating and thought-provoking reading. I love seeing what my colleagues have learned from others; my own experience has been expanded by their insights. — Michael Graves, Architect and Product Designer

In these pages, you will discover how Orlando Diaz-Azcuy’s admiration for the work of John Dickinson led to his firm’s perennial quest for design perfection. Married designers Ashley and Allegra Hicks disclose an intimate view of Ashley’s father, David Hicks, Britain’s most celebrated interior designer — who was so obsessed with design that he checked himself out of the hospital while dying because of the overabundance of plastic and the nurses’ unappealing apparal. For contrast, Cuban-born, multi-talented Manhattan designer Vincente Wolf offers a different and distinctive view of David Hicks’s great appeal. You will share Bunny Williams’s appreciation of Sister Parish and that designer’s comfortable, timeless, and witty sense of style. New York society decorator Thomas Jayne gives you new insight into the Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman classic The Decoration of Houses, still used as a textbook a century after its original publication. Open this book and meet masters of design — Billy Baldwin, Donald Deskey, Dorothy Draper, Elsie de Wolfe, Philippe Starck, Michael Taylor, Rose Cumming — and their admirers Thomas Britt, William Sofield, Carleton Varney, Suzanne Rheinstein, John Stefanidis, and more than a dozen other great names of interior design. With color, wit, and passion, Designers on Designers sensuously captures the essence, soul, and inspiration of the mastery of interior design. On designers and by designers, it is a sumptuous work that architects, amateur decorators, and designers themselves will be powerless to resist.

THE GREAT on THE GREAT:

• Pamela Banker on Sir John Soane
• Mattia Bonetti on Jean Royère
• Thomas Britt on Billy Baldwin
• Robert Couturier on Germain Boffrand, Eileen Gray, and Emilio Terry
• Elissa Cullman on Henry Francis du Pont
• Orlando Diaz-Azcuy on John Dickinson
• Jamie Drake on Stéphane Boudin
• Arthur Dunnam on Jed Johnson
• Ronald A. Grimaldi on Rose Cumming
• Ashley and Allegra Hicks on David Hicks
• Thomas Jayne on Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman’s The Decoration of Houses
• Pauline Metcalf on Frances Elkins
• Juan Pablo Molyneux on Jacques-Ange Gabriel
• Juan Montoya on Jean-Michel Frank
• Roberto Peregalli on Renzo Mongiardino
• Suzanne Rheinstein on Elsie de Wolfe
• Betty Sherrill on Eleanor Brown
• Marjorie Shushan on Kalef Alaton
• William Sofield on Donald Deskey
• John Stefanidis on Philippe Starck
• Carleton Varney on Dorothy Draper
• Bunny Williams on Sister Parish
• Ron Wilson on Michael Taylor

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RIT Publishes New Book On Modernist Designer Alvin Lustig

New Book on Modernist Designer Alvin Lustig

From book design, to furniture, to exhibitions, to interiors—everything he (Alvin Lustig) produced had dignity and beauty, and an innate sense of responsibility.
-Massimo Vignelli, CEO of Vignelli Designs

People who judge a book by its cover would be impressed with the work of Alvin Lustig (1915-1955), who designed book jackets for notable works such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1945), D. H. Lawrence’s The Man Who Died (1947), and Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955).

Authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger reflect on Lustig’s fascinating life as a modernist designer in their new book, Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig, published by the Cary Graphic Arts Press at Rochester Institute of Technology.

According to Sternberger, associate professor of art history at Rutgers University-Newark: “Alvin Lustig lived design. The depth and breadth of his experimentation in book cover design is testimony to his desire to take design to new heights, to change not just the world of design, but the world itself.”

Purity of Aim is the fourth book in the Cary Graphic Design Archive Chapbook Series—a colorful and well-researched representation of Lustig’s book cover designs that were created primarily for New Directions Books and Noonday Press, among others.

The book also focuses on Lustig’s artistry in creating bold graphic designs for book covers, enhanced by a lifelong collaboration with James Laughlin, founder and publisher of New Directions Books. In conjunction, the authors cite many passages from these letters of correspondence between Lustig and Laughlin from the early 1940s until Lustig’s untimely death at age 40 in 1955.

Drew, who teaches at Rutgers University-Newark, says as a designer and educator, he was “amazed by how Alvin Lustig’s work offers invaluable lessons about the past, while at the same time inspiring today’s designer with concrete examples of rigorous and innovative problem-solving.”

Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig is available for purchase online for $21.95 at http://carypress.rit.edu or by calling RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Press at 585-475-6766.

Furniture Designer Ann Pamintuan Believe In The Value Of Product Innovation

Internationally renowned furniture designer Ann Pamintuan encourages local designers to strive for innovation in their products in order to sell to a bigger international market.

“There are a lot of furniture makers so mahirap magkompetensiya. You have to come up with something different – use new technology, new materials to create new design and sell it at the right price. I think we will make it,” Pamintuan says in an interview.

The Davao-based designer was featured in the recent Design Talks lecture held at the Ayala Museum in Makati City.

Pamintuan is the first Asian woman designer to be included in the prestigious International Design Yearbook (in 2002) and has received international recognition for her “cocoon chair,” a fretwork of wire meshed together to form an elegant yet functional cocoon-like furniture.

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