Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

McQuaid, Matilda; Essays by Philip Beesley, Susan Brown, Sean Hanna, Cara McCarty, Patricia Wilson, and Amanda Young; Contributors include Alyssa Becker and John W.S. Hearle

ISBN 10: 156898507X / ISBN 13: 9781568985077

Editore: Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2005

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Dent at the foot of the front gutter causing slight crease to some of the beginning pages, else textblock is very clean and very tight. All page edges are straight and sound. Usual shelf wear to the spine and edges. 224pp., including index. Size: 4to - Over 9 3/4" -12" Tall.

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• Titolo: Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance
• Editore: Princeton Architectural Press, NY
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 156898507X
• ISBN 13: 9781568985077
• Rilegatura: Boards
• Disegnatore: Photographs
• Edizione: First Edition/2nd Printing.
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Tipo di libro: Hardcover
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Art
  • House & Home
  • Architecture

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Riassunto

Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, smarterthese are the textiles of tomorrow. From the carbon-fiber composite bicycle frame to the cardiac constraint sock and the Mars Pathfinder landing airbags, material innovations surround us. Our landscape, our buildings, our vehicles, our clothes, and our bodies all benefit from these highly engineered performance textiles.

Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textilesarchitectural, product design, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, industry, and the environmentExtreme Textiles highlights successful collaborations between design, industry, and science. Large, full-color illustrations and essays by some of today's most influential designers and scientists trace the extraordinary developments made in textiles over the last twenty years and suggest what is to come.

Tradition, technology, beauty, and strength are joined together in the materials and products presented in this volume. Whether exploring space, running a marathon, or fashioning the latest trend, we will be inspired by these extreme textiles every day.

Extreme Textiles

accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum beginning in April 2005.

Informazioni sugli autori

Matilda McQuaid is the exhibitions curator and head of the Textiles Department at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, she has curated more than thirty exhibitions and has authored several books.

Matilda McQuaid is the exhibitions curator and head of the Textiles Department at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, she has curated more than thirty exhibitions and has authored several books.