Stephen Bayley, Terence Conran. -- Buffalo, NY. : Firefly Books, 2007.

355 p.; 29 cm.

ISBN 978-1-55407-310-8.

Incluye índice.

Contenido: A note on good design -- A note on disegno -- An industrious love of art. The beginnings of design -- Lawful prey. Mass-consumption -- A kilogram of stone or a kilogram of gold? Survival and revival of craft values -- Hygiene of the optical. The romance of the machine -- The cash value of art. America -- La Ricostruzione. Italy since the Fifties -- Ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos. Symbolism and consumer psychology -- All that is solid melts into air. Design since the Eighties -- A-Z entries -- National characteristics -- Museums & institutions.