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020 _a9783037785140
082 _aVSCL
_bMOR
100 _aMorrison, Jasper
245 4 _aThe Hard Life
260 _a.
_bLars Müller
_c2017
300 _a208: ill.
_c22.56 x 2.24 x 30.48 cm
_rHardbound
504 _aBy 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
650 _aArt
650 _aCraftsmanship
650 _aDesign
650 _aVisual Culture
942 _cBKS
999 _c387
_d387