Thomas Heatherwick Making (Hardback) /anglais

About this book

Heatherwick is Leonardo da Vinci of our times Sir Terence Conran. Still just two decades into his career British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the most original creative talents for many decades. He has produced everything from sculptural chairs forged from the worlds largest aluminium extruder to a bridge that rolls open and closed and an exuberant seed bank hairy with fibre-optic lights (the award-winning UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo). This book is the first to present an exhaustive survey of his studios output to date: over 140 projects. Long in development it has been prepared in close collaboration with Heatherwick himself offering a highly personal in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at all aspects of Heatherwicks creative design and manufacturing processes. Projects are organized chronologically and bookended by an introduction setting out the studios philosophy and a reference section. Each project is fully illustrated and accompanied by a text explaining in Heatherwicks own words the particular design challenge it posed and the creative and practical processes used to address it.