King & Miranda: THE POETRY OF THE MACHINE -9780847813582

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Working with marble and polished plaster, as well as computers and high technology, Perry King and Santiago Miranda use design to civilise the machine. Their work gives industrially manufactured products — facsimile machines and photocopiers, lighting and furniture — something of the human character handmade artefacts once had.
Born in Britain and Spain, and now working in Milan, King and Miranda represent a new kind of internationalism in design, based not on uniformity, but on the combination of poetry with pragmatism. Hugh Aldersey-Williams — author of New American Design —looks at their approach to projects ranging from font designs for Olivetti to the lighting for the 1992 Seville Expo.