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Introducing the second-edition, hardcover version of Sam Chermayeff [et al.]: Creatures<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, edited by Moritz K\u00fcng! With the first edition sold out in less than a year, this book takes a look back through nearly two decades of experimental projects undertaken by the Berlin-based architect Sam Chermayeff and his collaborators\u2014for the most part pieces of furniture whose use, appearance, or application has been reimagined and readapted. But these \u2018creatures\u2019 are not just conceptual; they\u2019re made to be lived with daily and all start with the idea that personal whim is probably the best guide for producing any design that\u2019s to be lived with day in, day out.<\/p>\n

Photos of these objects go hand in hand with an essay by writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete, who talks us through Chermayeff\u2019s work in the context of \u2018thing theory\u2019, a school of thought that focuses on human-object interactions. Readers move back and forth between their own view of Chermayeff\u2019s creatures and Roelstraete\u2019s reflections on the nature of \u2018things\u2019, as he also draws on cultural figures like Heidegger, Francis Ponge, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Karl Ove Knausg\u00e5rd, and our relationship to the indomitable presence of objects in our lives.<\/p>\n

Published by Apartamento Publishing S.L.
\nSecond edition: October 2021
\nDimensions: 210x290mm
\nPages: 120
\nBinding: hardcover
\nISBN: 978-84-09-32749-2<\/p>\n

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