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2005

Format:	Book
Author:	Busch, Akiko.
Title:	The uncommon life of common objects : essays on design and the everyday / Akiko Busch.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Metropolis Books, ©2005.
Description:	159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:	"In The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, Akiko Busch devotes a chapter each to twelve objects, looking at the reasons these items took the forms they did and discussing how everyday things acquire their significance through daily human experience."--Jacket.
Subjects:	Busch, Akiko. Industrial design. Design.
Contents:	Foreword / Susan S. Szenasy -- Introduction -- The Stroller -- The Cereal box -- The Backpack -- The Desk -- The Mailbox -- The Vegetable peeler -- The Telephone -- The Refrigerator -- The Snowboard --The Camera -- The Medicine cabinet -- The White lawn chairs -- Afterword: Golden slipcover.
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	2004030307
ISBN:	193304506X 9781933045061
Other Number:	57349066
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Control Number:	161574
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Call Number:	745.2 Busch

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