{"id":4823,"date":"2007-10-02T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2011-07-20T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T22:28:10","slug":"phaidon-design-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/phaidon-design-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Phaidon Design Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phaidon has just released a three volume collection &#8220;PHAIDON DESIGN CLASICS&#8221; which features 999 industrial design products that their panel of design experts and editors consider as &#8220;classics&#8221;&#8211;objects that have attained perfection in design and function.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;At 950 pages and over 4,000 images, PHAIDON DESIGN CLASSICS is a stunning, exhaustive survey of the evolution of industrial design, from the clothespin to the iPod, arranged chronologically from centuries-old tools to contemporary home accessories.<\/p>\n<p>Lushly illustrated with patents, prototypes, old advertisements, original drawings, images showing the process of manufacturing, as well as rare archival photographs, each product spread is also accompanied by a short text explaining its significance and why it has secured its place in the design classic pantheon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/phaidondesignclassics_001.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/phaidondesignclassics_023.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/phaidondesignclassics_987.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phaidon has just released a three volume collection &#8220;PHAIDON DESIGN CLASICS&#8221; which features 999 industrial design products that their panel of design experts and editors consider as &#8220;classics&#8221;&#8211;objects that have attained perfection in design and function.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[240,254,241],"tags":[140,447],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20322,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/20322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}