ITALIAN NEW WAVE DESIGN Philippe Starck Mies van der Rohe's pavilion

Mies van der Rohe's pavilion in Barcelona was dismantled at the end of the exhibition and was painstakingly rebuilt in 1986 to mark the architect's 100th birthday

covering an area of over 200 m2

and the writer Arthur Dreyfus also participated to the project by writing some haikus placed at various places of the book

objects are hidden away in carefully designed storage spaces

at the age of 27

ITALIAN NEW WAVE DESIGN Philippe Starck Mies van der Rohe's pavilionThe Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive and heretical experiments in the applied arts and design. Covering two centuries of avantgarde designs, but concentrating on the 1950s to the present, the book looks at architecture and urban design as well as graphic, interior, exhibit, industrial, and fashion design. It discusses the role that such magazines as Casabella, Domus, and Modo have played on