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" When I was a child, colours were things..."
"Twenty years ago a female consumer would say: "I've got a red coat"..."
"In lighting, product ranges are unavoidable, except in the case of the icon..."
"To consider design as high price range is a heresy...."
"In the future, there will no longer be a place for shops whose premise ..."
"At the Universal Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London in 1851..."
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DESIGN & Ranges 2001

Paperback
16.5x24 cm
200 pages
180 illustrations 180 colour, 17 black and white
Bilingual text

Design & ranges explores one of the most everyday, little-known and fascinating aspects of contemporary manufacturing. How do companies organise their increasingly wide and more complex product ranges, in order to render them more readable by the market? How do the constraints of production classification influence the design of products themselves?
The way certain designers deal with product ranges today helps highlight the modernity of this notion and its influence on numerous aspects of contemporary creation.
As in natural history, classification is a part of our vision and understanding of the world and, because of this, is constantly open to debate.

 

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Forward by Henri Griffon, president of Industries Françaises de l'Ameublement, texts by Christine Colin (The origin of ranges), Constance Rubini (Furniture, famous renges since the 19th century), Ettore Sottsass (Colours), Eric de Chassey (Well-tempered ranges), a porte-folio (2000 garden gnomes at Bagatelle), interviews with Jean-Pierre Loisel (Crédoc) and Jean Bismuth (Cofremca) by Françoise Truffaut, Gérard Laizé (Via) by Sophie Roulet, Li Edelkoort by Brigitte Fitoussi, Richard Millar and Tom Dixon (Habitat) by Claire Fayolle, Piero Gandini (Flos), Philippe Starck, Olivier Angleys (Steelcase Europe), Bruno Chirac (Cuisinella), Luc Finot (Slumberland) and Guy Lavaud (Darty) by Christine Colin, projects and creations by Xavier Moulin, Matali Crasset, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Radi Designers, Andréas Aas, Jérôme Olivet, Kristian Gavoille, Andrée Putman, Eric Hourdeaux, Martijn Prins, Patrick Norguet, Patrick Jouin, Elsa Francès, Christian Biecher, Arik Levy, Peter Maly, Jean-Marc Gady, Olivier Gossart, Christian Liaigre, Philippe Million, Fillère and Dingjian, Eric Jourdan, Pierre Charpin, Dominique Mathieu, Delo Lindo, Bernard Moïse, Frédéric Ruyant, Caroline Froment, Jean-Louis Guinochet, and also Andrea Branzi, Fabrice Hybert, Giandomenico Belotti, Verner Panton, Ettore Sottsass, Jurgen Bey, Marti Guixé, Olivier Mourgue. Graphic design: Jean-Yves Cousseau and Bénédicte Sauvage, copy editor: Sarah Clément, translator: Ronald Corlette Theuil. Photos: Bruno Scotti.