Dish: International Design for the Home

By Julie Muller Stahl

The big design surveys of the past few years tend to have two things in common: a lot of creative design and very few women designers. Dish is here to set the record straight. This exciting collection... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568984766
• ISBN13: 9781568984766
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.1" x 0.9" x 7.5"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and informative

I had the opportunity to read this as I was stuck at a party and it was on the coffee table... What a treasure! While I had some very basic knowledge of the impact of shape and color in domestic spaces, this book clarified that which I thought I already knew then expanded upon it tremendously after establish a solid vocabulary. A great book for any homeowner or anyone interested in design and interior spaces.

a compelling look at design's next generation

This collection of thirty young designers' work is inspiring. Their ideas are diverse, compelling, and innovative, just what you hope a showcase like this would be. Each designer is represented by a short statement and a handful of photographs of project, and this is accompanied by a handful of essays and designer biographies too. The connective thread through this talent is that the designers are women. That is as light a touch as the editor seemed to want to put on it - it is not a dogmatic approach like "women design in this way..." although you could point to a certain continuity of elegance, of wit, it would be difficult to argue (and the book doesn't try to force the point) that these necessarily are gender issues in design. In fact I think that the opposite and more optimistic point is where the book really succeeds - that contemporary women designers are creating such a diverse, multithreaded output that attributing certain inevitable characteristics merely to gender might be a limiting approach. This is an excellent book and I would recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary design.