The Language of Things

An elegant, witty and free-ranging survey of industrial product design from Thomas Chippendale’s ponderous 18th-century manor-house furnishings to Jonathan Ive’s sprightly Macintosh iBooks * Telegraph *
Sudjic’s book rebukes designers for their arrogance and increasing self-importance … readable, sharp and worthwhile * FT *
The Language of Things is a happy trot through the colourful landscape formed by design’s eternal alternation between use and allure * Evening Standard *
Deyan Sudjic presents us with a nightmare vision of a world drowning in objects … witty, well observed and wide-ranging * Guardian *
As a confessional, the book is witty and honest, and Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators * Royal Academy magazine *
Articulate and wonderfully knowledgeable … a very nice object in itself … much in here for anyone who takes an interest in the world around us * Time Out *

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.

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