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100 Masterpieces of Design

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Category: Design, Art & Architecture

100 Masterpieces of Design showcases one of the world’s largest design collections. Founded in the early 1990s, the Pompidou’s collection includes more than 200 designers and houses over 8,000 international pieces.

Among its wide-ranging holdings are milestone pieces — the prototype of the Grand Confort Chair by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret (1928) and Pierre Chareau’s desk for Robert Mallet-Stevens (1927), for example–and practical, everyday triumphs of design, like the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen (1950).

These works are celebrated in this volume alongside pieces by some of the most influential designers of modern furniture–Alvar Aalto, Gae Aulenti, Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, Arne Jacobsen, Carlo Mollino, Isamu Noguchi, Gio Ponti, Gerrit Rietveld and Mies van der Rohe, to name just a few.

Centre Pompidou. pb. 21 X 28 cm, 120 pgs, 100 color.

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Natalie L. ★★★★★

The photography in this book is superb, and I love how it draws from over 8,000 pieces in the collection. It’s the kind of volume that makes me want to flip through one page per night.

Mia L. ★★★★★

Starting with the Pompidou's early-90s founding, this book gives you a real sense of how design evolved across decades, not just a list of pretty objects. The breadth of over 200 designers packed into one volume is incredible value, and I keep flipping back to it for fresh inspiration.

Scarlett ★★★★★

The Pompidou’s 8,000-plus pieces are distilled here into a tight, curated hundred, so it’s a fast tour that still feels deep. I flipped straight to the lesser-known 1990s entries and found a few new favorites I’d never seen in other books.