Publisher/新潮社

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"Good Design," edited by Japanese design critic Masaru Katsumi (1909–1983), introduces 100 products selected by Katsumi, who was deeply involved in the spread of design ideas and the formation of the Good Design Movement in postwar Japan. The book covers a wide range of designs, from masterpieces of modern design by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Charles Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Isamu Noguchi, and Sori Yanagi to traditional crafts. The Good Design Award, which began in 1957, expanded as an initiative to recognize and honor designs that improve life and society, and became a foundation supporting Japanese design culture. This book, compiled amid the enthusiasm of the era, conveys the ideas of the time, which sought to view modern design and Japanese lifestyles and culture from a unified perspective. Photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto and Seiji Otsuji, among others, make this an important volume that tells the history of Japan's postwar acceptance of design.