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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Dust cover is worn but book underneath is great. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In “Woman as Design” Stephen Bayley discusses how the female body works as a sign a symbol…as a designed object. Both provocative and beguiling “Woman as Design” is an eclectic mix of design cultural history erotica fashion fetishism and observation. In Part One: Before Behind Between Above and Below Stephen Bayley takes us from Aphrodite to the Delta of Venus and then to the industrialisation of the breast (in bra form) and sexual identity. He questions what strange mixture of evolution social competition cultural modelling and (predominantly male) desire made the substance and the style of women. In Part Two he examines pin-ups stereotypes cosmetics hemlines and heels and looks in detail at how design has appropriated the feminine form. He illustrates how we see display dress decorate and distort women – including how shoes and clothes form our impression of womanly ideal and how different ages and different cultures developed different womanly ideals. Wonderfully designed and superbly illustrated “Woman as Design” is a compulsively attractive book and a modern study of the continuous conflict between the real and the ideal…in its most familiar form. (OS)