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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.
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Ellen Lupton is one of America's preeminent design educators. Her books include Skin , Inside Design Now , and Mixing Messages , among others. She is currently director of the design program at Maryland Institute of Art and Design.
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"...offers surprising insights into our relationships with the increasingly complex 'skins' that surround us." -- Metropolis, June 2002
"As this book powerfully suggests...it is becoming increasingly hard...to distinguish ourselves from the things that surround us." -- Eye, 2002
"Lupton regards skin as a cultural metaphor, which is what makes this beautifully produced book...so provocative." -- Architectural Record, October 2002
"These cutting edge ideas. . . may be changing the way people live and think about decorative furniture." -- Associated Press, July 2002
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- PublisherPrinceton Architectural Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1568983182
- ISBN 13 9781568983189
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
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