Hard Life, Hardcover by Morrison, Jasper; Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon...

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Author: Jasper Morrison Number of Pages: 208 Pages ISBN: 9783037785140 Item Width: 8.9 in Publication Year: 2017 Topic: Cultural Heritage, Product Genre: Design, Biography & Autobiography width: 8.9 in Format: Hardcover Illustrator: Yes Item Length: 12 in Language: English height: 0.9 in Item Height: 0.9 in Item Weight: 44.9 Oz Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers Book Title: Jasper Morrison: the Hard Life

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Hard Life, Hardcover by Morrison, Jasper; Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon.... Hard Life, Hardcover by Morrison, Jasper; Museu Nacional de Etnologia, Lisbon (COL), ISBN 3037785144, ISBN-13 9783037785140, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Design at its purest: the beauty, ingenuity and craftsmanship of everyday objects in rural PortugalBy what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an instinct to carve out the essential with the slenderest of means brought to objects that made life both livable and meaningful to a pre-industrial society. The objects photographed and described by designer Jasper Morrison may be appreciated both for their beauty and for the example they set of design at its purest