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The hard life Jasper Morrison / concept: Jasper Morrison and Lars M©ơller ; in collaboration with the Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Z©ơrich : Lars M©ơller Publishers, [2017].Description: 202 pages : numerous color photos ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9783037785140 (hd.bd.)
DDC classification:
  • 745.4 SID-B-11356
Summary: By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre-industrial society. The objects photographed and described by designer Jasper Morrison may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest
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By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre-industrial society. The objects photographed and described by designer Jasper Morrison may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest

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