中文简介：

本书通过专家分析、精彩的摄影作品以及大量熟悉的和不寻常的物品，解释了什么是真正的设计，并揭示了我们周围日常事物背后隐藏的故事。作者是一位专门研究设计的作家和记者，他选择了101件对世界设计史有重大影响的物品，深入研究使这些作品成为设计经典的制造者、设计师以及生产和风格的发展。文中加入了设计草图、许多知名的和一些不知名的设计师的肖像，以及设计史中许多令人兴奋的轶事。

设计师包括Charles & Ray Eames、Verner Panton、Alexander Girard、Finn Juhl、Gilbert Rohde、Pierre Paulin、Gae Aulenti、Philippe Starck、Marcel Wanders、Konstantin Grcic等等。

本书深入而翔实地概述了20世纪的设计，并展示了21世纪**批真正的经典物品。

英文简介：

With expert analysis, great photography, and a huge selection of familiar and unusual objects, this book explains what truly makes a design great and reveals the hidden stories behind the everyday things that surround us. The author, a writer and journalist specialising in design, has chosen 101 objects that have had a major influence on the world of design history, delving into the makers, the designers, and developments in production and style that made these pieces into design classics. The text incorporates design sketches, portraits of many well-known and some unknown designers, as well as numerous exciting anecdotes from the sewing box of design history.

The selection of designers includes, but is not limited to, legends such as Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard and other protagonists of classical modernism. Also, here are post-war designers such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin, and Gae Aulenti, and postmodern and contemporary designers such as Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders, and Konstantin Grcic.

This book provides an in-depth and informative overview of 20th-century design - and a glimpse of the first true classic objects of the 21st century.