Thursday, 4:13pm
28 June 2012
Deadpan Dutch design [extract]
False Flat: Why Dutch Design is so Good
By Aaron Betsky with Adam Eeuwens. Phaidon, £35<br>False Flat presents a new and unsettling view of contemporary Dutch design. At first it seems as if we’re going to be given the familiar story – the one in which the form and character of Dutch design is explained in relation to the country’s peculiar geography and its people’s ingenious responses to it; the story with the implicit subtext that Dutch design is the best in the world.
See ‘Deadpan Dutch design’ in Eye 55 for the full text of the review.