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Objectivity
A designer's book of curious tools

Foreword by Thomas Heatherwick




More than 400 objects, ancient and modern, are presented in sections that broadly characterize their use: hitting, cutting, holding, shielding, molding, spreading, gripping, rubbing, and testing.

 

From a nineteenth-century fruit picker to Czech military food-mixing blades, from variations on the kitchen whisk to medical instruments that, thankfully, are no longer in use, there is something in these objects that will touch the inventor, designer, artist, or collector in all of us. 400+ color photographs and illustrations

192 pages, Paperback, B&W, 8" x 8", © 2007
Order Number: CB9186..........$24.95
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