Beautiful design illustrated alphabet of all time.
house Phaidon has published in 2007 a magnificent set of three massive volumes devoted to the 1000 objects become "classics" of design: illustrated inventory of items particularly mature and become cult, with an aesthetic value, remained unchanged since their creation, combining stylish design with innovative materials or defined by their shapes simple, balanced and pure. This encyclopedia is now available as a small booklets with Le Monde on the weekend, adding to the dimension "toolkit" of the book, and finally "taschenise" a little bulky Phaidon art book.
Turn the pages of this book is to enter the alphabet illustrated plastic forms of everyday life and return to their original form elements back a thousand times, combined, copied, processed since their introduction. And just as it is intellectually satisfying to understand the origin of words or phrases idioms we use without ever paying any attention to, this huge design gallery is a unique opportunity to decipher the structures of our manufactured environment. It shows in its purest forms of some founders have structured our gaze on the chairs, lamps, cars, appliances ... 
In this field as in others, we are often determined by our knowledge of the things we do not know the origin and which have so permeated the culture they seem to have always existed. The famous transistor Sony TR 510 or 610, of which we find the forms into the very latest Apple iPod, is an example of these objects founders. Illustration of the famous adage Assen in the terminal classes: the thought of an unknown philosopher can determine the very thought of those who have never read. Also another way of saying that objects are not manufactured purely physical, they are entirely steeped in fantasy, history, intentions ( see here for another version of this problem ). A few hours in this magnificent anthology enough to be finally satisfied.
Phaidon Design Classics
, 3 volumes, 2007, 150 euros, and currently available in 20 volumes with Le Monde on the weekend.
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