The influential British designer often associated to Naoto Fukasawa is Jasper Morrison.
Here you have a link to get a glimpse of the book.
The famous prehistoric temple is Stonehenge.
Ryōan-ji temple (and its rock garden), it is very famous and important, but it has nothing to do with Bruno Munari’s book.
Rock balancing. Isn’t it cool?
Fischli and Weiss piece is called: “Rock on top of another rock.”
Mr. Goldsworthy is another cool chap. For instance, if we Google image his name...
The mailman who spent all his life building a castle with found stones, wasn’t English but French. His name was Ferdinand Cheval.
Gerrit Rietveld designed a lot of fantastic chairs, but he never made one with wire.
Thonet is a famous furniture design company. But they are famous for wood, not wire.
Castiglioni brothers made a lot of chairs, but like Rietveld and Thonet, not wire around.
Eames. Here is a link. And here is another one.
Check out this link and stay speechless (as we are). There is no cook with his name (or maybe there is, but he is not relevant to us). Martha Schwartz designed a lot of parks, but none with this name.
If you want to see something nice, here is the link.
If you never heard about Calder’s Circus, it is time to fix this.
If you never heard about Calder’s mobiles, again, it is now time for you to check this out.
Check the Wikipedia entry on her. Here is the fur-covered cup. Here is her well-known nurse-maid.
Here we go with the Traccia table, and finally, here you have her mesmerizing paper coat.
Here is the link, in case you missed it.
Elio Caccavale designed a lot of things for pigs, but never did a haired glass.
Toni Dunne and Fiona Raby designed a lot of weird (and beautiful) stuff, but never did such a hairy thing.
Here you have his website.
And here you have some images.
Propp was about fairy tales, not metaphors.
Josef Albers was about colors and their interaction, not metaphors.
John Berger was about way of seeing.
Sottsass' book is a mind opener. Try to get one!
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