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Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design

Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design

Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design

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Petroski, Henry

Cl. New York, 2003

Book ID: 61172

Delves inside the creative process by which common objects are invented and improved upon in pursuit of the ever-elusive perfect thing. An entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects such as chairs, lightbulbs, doorknobs and potato peelers.

320 pp., 22 illus.