GESTALTEN

Berlin , Germany

Desire - The Shape of Things to Come

Design in the 21st century has liberated itself from industrial conditions and the associated physical demands. With new technology, expanded choice of materials and the practice of luxurious craftsmanship, designers are embracing design with scintillating attitude, challenging aesthetic boundaries and speculating new expressions in visual codes. Desire documents current developments in furniture and object design today, showcasing recent work by the most exciting and influential designers from around the globe categorized into four distinct trends and groups: Modernists, Taletellers, Inventors and Entertainers.

Desire is an up-to-date comprehensive survey on furniture and object design today showcasing the crème de la crème of designers culled from around worldwide. It presents celebrated designers who represent the Modernists, creating sophisticated designs that are redefining the formal language of Modernism blending the restraint of form with the refined use of materials. They are featured along with the inventors; visionary designers who continue to challenge our perception of design with futuristic shapes, and the experimental, innovative and often unprecedented use of materials.

Furthermore, Desire documents a wave of designers who are practicing a more playful approach to design and producing products that are tale telling. It introduces designers that are merging various design disciplines producing a new expressive language. They show references to historical events and times, follow conceptual and materials processes and are decorative in nature with visually striking shapes and graphic motifs. The book also explores the growing area of design as art, exhibiting recent work by designers who are creating provocative one-off pieces and limited editions. Produced with experimental freedom and intended for a niche market, they are entertaining in nature and exhibited at prestigious design galleries and sold at international auction houses.

With a foreword and chapter introduction texts written by Andrej Kupetz the Managing Director of the German Design Council as well as designer profiles, this indispensable reference provides valuable insight into the current state of furniture design practice. The pioneering examples in Desire will shape the future aesthetic of product, furniture and object design and pave the way we will live in the 21st century.

Featured designers include:
5.5 Designers, Ron Arad, Autoban, Maarten Baas, BarberOsgerby, Joost van Bleiswijk, BLESS, Jörg Boner, Bram Boo, Tord Boontje, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Stephen Burks, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Committee, Christophe Delcourt, Stefan Diez, Tom Dixon, DRIFT, Kiki van Eijk, Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Feichtner, Folkform, FRONT, Martino Gamper, Konstantin Grcic, Anna Ter Haar, Ineke Hans, Jaime Hayon, Studio Job, Hella Jongerius, Max Lamb, Kwangho Lee, Mathieu Lehanneur, Leif.designpark, Doshi Levien, Studio Libertiny, Julia Lohmann, Malin Lundmark, Peter Marigold, Haldane Martin, Jason Miller, Jasper Morrison, Nendo, Ernesto Neto, Marc Newson, Patrick Norguet, o-d-a, od-v, Robert Stadler, Steven Holl Architects, Studio Makkink & Bey, STUDIOILSE, Tjep., Ünal & Böler Studio, Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Hannes Wettstein, Dirk Winkel, WOK Media, Michael Young, Oskar Zieta and many more.

Designer: R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Kupetz, S. Moreno, A. Mollard (editors)
Manufacturer: DIE GESTALTEN Verlag

Status

cutting-edge design publications

Location

Berlin , Germany

Website

http://www.gestalten.com

Gestalten specializes in developing content for aficionados of cutting-edge visual culture worldwide.

The company is best known for the more than two hundred fifty books we have published that document and anticipate vital design movements for our own title list as well as customer publishing projects. Gestalten also provides Curation, Art Direction, Consulting, Production, Distribution and Design Services to international clients such as Volkswagen and Diesel.

Always working directly with talented young designers and artists, Gestalten brings a deep understanding of visual culture on a global level to whatever we do and remains firmly committed to presenting visual trends with timeless substance. The company has 40 staff members through offices in Berlin, London, New York and Tokyo.

Publishing
Since the founding in 1995, Gestalten has published over two hundred and fifty books and remains on the cutting-edge of visual publishing, translating the latest developments in all aspects of visual culture both for our own title list as well as for commissioned book projects. Compiled, edited and designed by graphic designers, our experimental yet professional publications span from graphic design, illustration, typography, object design, architecture and interior design to urban and contemporary art and are available worldwide and in the world’s most important design centers through international distribution.

Simultaneously user-oriented and inspirational, our titles have found resonance not only among a professional agency and design audience, but also among students, architects, directors, trend scouts and anyone interested in visual codes. Specialised in understanding visual culture and trends on a global level, we are firmly committed to publishing modern subjects with unique, timeless substance.

Curation and Consulting
Gestalten uses the background, knowledge and insight into contemporary visual culture that we have accumulated as an internationally successful design publisher to offer clients curation and consultancy services. Because of the highly discriminating nature of a design-savvy target group, we work closely with our clients to develop authentic, completely customized solutions.

Corporate Design
Gestalten’s books on cutting-edge visual culture resonate so well with a global design-savvy audience because they are developed and created by designers themselves. From the company’s inception over ten years ago, Gestalten has never only published books, but has always put their design skills to work for a broad range of international clients and projects.

Customer Publishing & International Distribution
For more than ten years, Gestalten has developed, designed, published, distributed and promoted for our own title list that document and anticipate vital movements in design, lifestyle and visual culture worldwide. We also offer the expertise gained from this experience to clients to help them make their own publication projects including books, magazines, DVDs, websites or events – a success.

Since 2007, Gestalten is the worldwide distribution partner for books by Frame Publishers, the publishers of the internationally acclaimed magazines Frame: The Great Indoors and Mark: Another Architecture. Exclusively in the UK, Gestalten also distributes titles by the well-respected publisher Hatje Cantz.

Motion / Interactive
Gestalten’s design expertise applies to moving images and interactive applications in addition to print products. We help clients to develop an initial idea for a project and then implement this idea creatively across a variety of media. These media include film, DVD and the web as well as print, packaging and advertising campaigns. For example, we developed an idea and key visual for a client from the music industry. Based on this idea, we created their stage design and then shot concert footage, which we used to make a DVD.

Case Studies
For detailed information about projects for each of the services we provide, please have a look at our Design Services section.

CONTACT

Gestalten
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