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Pretense Design

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Pretense Design

By Per Mollerup

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About the book

How some design appears to be something that it is not-by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines a...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780262039482

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Pretense Design

Format

Hardcover

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