Great gadgets, fashionable furniture, super sporting goods, the best beauty supplies, high-end high tech: when you open this catalog, you're opening a paper portal to the Web and stepping into a showcase of the world's most fantastic luxury items. Stylish, with a unique graphic interface and complemented by a fully interactive Web site, The Dream Catalog includes hyperlinks to many of the listed sites for easy purchasing. So--what are you looking for? A chair, perhaps? Then consider one from New Zealand in an attractive aluminum filigree, or another based on the work of artist Joan Miró. Does your kitchen need equipment? There's the clever citrus press with a carafe to catch every drop, or the sunshine-colored French high-speed juicer. Buy new faucets for the bathroom sink, a camera capable of taking both still pictures and videos, an ergonomically correct (and speedy) reclining mountain bike, incredible grills of every kind, golf clubs, and lots more. It's your selective reference source to what's on sale online-and an exquisite object in its own right.
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If you feel like frustrating yourself...,
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This review is from: The Dream Catalog (Textbook Binding)
If you feel like frustrating yourself by looking at all of the coolest stuff on the planet that you will never be able to afford...than read this book. Not that I dislike the book...I love it...that's the problem. Notice if you will, all the cool stuff was made in some random country. Hmm...interesting. Anyways, the book is an essential if you have just won the lottery or married Bill Gates.
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It was just a dream!,
This review is from: The Dream Catalog (Textbook Binding)
Well, it might have been a good idea at the time but I bought this book at a really low, low remainder price and the bookshop, distributor and publishers probably made something from it. It is after all called a 'dream catalog' and I guess that sums up the idea that buyers would use it as guide to trendy stuff available on the net, trouble is so much of it is completely out of date. The best place to look for these dream items now is probably on Ebay.
So why did I buy it? Because it just looks an amazing book and for the price it is a brilliant visual record of product design at the turn of the century. Divided into four parts, In the home, Fashion & beauty, High-tech (the section that is most out-of-date) and Sport & leisure, with each of these sub-divided too. Each page has, on average, six color photos so there are about three thousand in the book and as they are mostly products they are all presented as cut-outs floating on the page and this is why I think the book looks so stunning. Each product has a caption including country of origin flag, web address and a few descriptive words, no prices obviously. Product design folk and trendies who go for the slightly out of date will love it and possibly it might just become a hard to find (and expensive) book in the future known as Yesteryear's Style Guide. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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