书名：British Design / 英国设计

作者：Hugh Aldersey-Williams

出版：5 Continents，2010年

装帧：平装，143页

语种：英文

尺寸：21*21 cm

本书通过甄选纽约现代艺术博物馆馆藏精品，娓娓道来英国设计的发展历程。作为工业革命的发源地与现代工业设计的摇篮，英国的设计遗产在此得到深入探索——从十八世纪的萌芽到千禧穹顶的诞生及未来展望。

纵跨两百余年的时间长卷，《英国设计》生动呈现了工艺美术运动的思潮、战期间喷火与飓风战斗机的工业美学、迷你轿车与戴森吸尘器的经典设计、"酷不列颠"时期的文化盛景，以及英国设计师对二十一世纪数字娱乐通讯设备的独特诠释。

he story of British design told through works selected from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Great Britain was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the epicentre of the development of modern industrial design. This book - the fourth volume in the MoMA Design Series featuring works in the Museum's collection - explores this legacy, tracing the growth of British design from the eighteenth century to the Millennium Dome and beyond. In its more than two-hundred-year scope, British Design explores the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes of World War II, the Mini car and Dyson vacuum cleaner, the 'Cool Britannia' cultural explosion in the late 1990s, and British designers' take on the digital devices that define entertainment and communication in the early twenty-first century.

An introduction by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, provides an overview of design culture in Great Britain; an essay and timeline by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, curator, former design critic for The New Statesman, and author of World Design and New American Design, illuminates the masterpieces of modern British design superbly reproduced in the volume's plate section.