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ISBN 9781568983189
Publication date 3/1/2002
7 x 9 inches (17.8 x 22.9 cm), Hardcover
240 pages, 250 color illustrations
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Every object has a skin. Thick or thin, smooth or rough, porous or impermeable, the skin is the line between the hidden inside and the outside we experience. Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world. Designers today manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth and complexity as well as their own behaviors and identities. Skin features the work of such notable designers and architects as Greg Lynn, Petra Blaisse, SPEEDO, Morphosis, Ross Lovegrove, Marcel Wanders, and many others. It also contains essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces, and a glossary of surface materials. It reminds us that beauty is indeed only skin-deep. This book accompanies a major exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and includes essays by Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, and Grace Jeffers. Ellen Lupton is Adjunct Curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Co-Chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a Chrysler Design Award winner, and the best-selling author of Design Culture Now, Mixing Messages, Mechanical Brides, and Letters from the Avant-Garde.
Ellen Lupton is Adjunct Curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Co-Chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a Chrysler Design Award winner, and the best-selling author of Design Culture Now, Mixing Messages, Mechanical Brides, and Letters from the Avant-Garde.
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Editorial Reviews
Eye:
"As this book powerfully suggests, in an age of so many brilliant artificial skins, it is becoming increasingly hard and perhaps impossible to distinguish ourselves from the things that surround us."
Skin So Soft, Hamptons:
"This revealing [book] casts light on what is hidden beneath the surface of everything in our world, living and manufactured, and the role a protective surface means in the grand scheme."
I.D. Magazine:
"Opening with a spectacular photo spread featuring manipulated photos of a white Michael Jackson and an Asian Pope, this book is an investigation into ordinary and not-so-ordinary objects and their outer shells."
Architectural Record :
"Lupton regards skin as a cultural metaphor, which is what makes this beautifully produced book, with its often-disturbing images, so provocative."
What Will They Think of Next?, Associated Press; Barbara Mayer:
"These cutting edge ideas. . . may be changing the way people live and think about decorative furniture."
Skins of design, Surfacing Solutions:
"In conjunction with Skin (the Cooper-Hewitt exhibit) a 240-page book is being co-published by the museum and Princeton Architectural Press. The cover of the book captures the themes of the exhibition: truth and deception, soft substances and slick skins, physical pleasure and clean, wipe able surfaces."
Metropolis:
". . . this compendium of products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media offers surprising insights into our relationships with the increasingly complex skins that surround us."
Skin Deep, edesign :
"Accompanying Skin is an eponymously titled catalog published by Princeton Architectural Press, which sports a cover made of synthetic paper padded with polyurethane foam."
How Magazine:
". . . explores the limits and possibilities of what defines a surface. . ."
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