Customer Reviews

Spoon

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The designers work showcased in Spoon is great, and is the best collection of up to date design that I have seen. The work in Spoon is mostly product and furniture design. This book is a great addition to any industrial designers library for content alone.

The cover and binding design is the stupidest I have ever seen. Spoon is the least functional book I have ever used. It has a heavyweight, sharp edged, curved metal cover. Spoon doesn't fit in a bookcase, and is not sturdy enough to leave out on a table. Upon a few passes through, this book that cost $75, began to fall apart. If a guest picks it up I have to tell them to be careful, so as not to rip it. Spoon catches on some knit surfaces and is sure to scratch your bookcase if it is made of wood.

The form of the book is nice, and could have worked nicely if one of the designers featured inside worked on the outside packaging. Spoon nests on your lap when opened thanks to the wave shape of the cover, then it slips off thanks to the nature of the material and its protective coating.

It should have had a soft but durable cover with more welcoming lighter materials. Phaidon must have gone with the packaging they did so SPOON would stand out at book stores, attract more attention, and sell more copies. It is to bad for the consumer that they didn't choose a different way to do so.

The book is large, heavy and hard to handle while reading. The designs are unfinished, unpolished, and unsophisticated. The images are dark and poor. Being a designer I have numerous books on the subject and was terribly disappointed in this book!!!

I loaned the original metal cover one years ago, and I just had to get it again. It is definitely something you want to have if you are interested in modern design.

I love the book. It's absoloutely amazing. However, it was not in the condition that it was claimed it was. I was very dissappointed, because I had purchased it for a gift and I thouht it was new. However, it was pretty worn out and. I had to buy something else, but kept this for myself, cuz the book itself is fantastic.

If u love furniture design, this is the book for you.
This book has a nice packaging design and contains lot of nice furniture.

You will love this book :)