In the opening paragraphs of the British design writer and editor Charlene Prempeh’s new book, she recalls a conversation she had in the late summer of 2020. (A conversation via Zoom, of course.) ...

In the nineteen-fifties, the designers and developers of Detroit’s Lafayette Park believed that they had thought of everything to make city living as attractive as any suburb. A marquee architect from ...

"Swedish Design: A History provides a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to the development of design in Sweden, from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Leading ...

Volume 1 -- Prehistoric Times to World War I -- 1. Tool making and Rock Art in the Prehistoric Age -- 2. The Earliest Civilizations and Their Inventions, 7000 BCE -- 900 BCE -- 3. The Classical Age, ...