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Skin

Surface, Substance, and Design
Princeton Architectural Press By Ellen Lupton
Essays by Jennifer Tobias
and Alicia Imperiale
and Grace Jeffers
and Randi Mates

7 x 9 in; 240 pp ; 250 color images
Paperback
Published in May, 2007
ISBN 1568987110
ISBN13 9781568987118

$27.50  

Skin -- Ellen Lupton, with essays by Jennifer Tobias, Alicia Imperiale, Grace Jeffers, Available now in a paperback edition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton, describing products and projects that have been produced since the book's initial publication. Skin presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that expand the limits of what we understand as surface. Reflecting the convergence of natural and artificial life, this provocative and stimulating book shows how enhanced and simulated skins appear everywhere in our contemporary world.

Ellen Lupton is adjunct curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and co-chair of the Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a Chrysler Design Award winner and the best-selling author of D.I.Y. Design It Yourself, Thinking with Type, Design Culture Now, and Mixing Messages.