Objects The Impossible Collection of Design, Assouline

Designs through time. This brilliant tome brings together a hundred years’ worth of creative innovations in furniture design, and unfolds like the pages of an epic. Put together by design expert Frédéric Chambre, his impeccably curated selection traces the development of trends in craft, art and technology in parallel with movements such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco and today’s digital age. As much a visual feast as a fascinating historical timeline, it offers a dynamic exploration of the evolution of everyday human objects through the twentieth century. Hand-bound and limited edition in a linen clamshell case, the book itself is a thing of beauty. Now move over whatever’s on that coffee table.