Skin: Surface, Substance, Design

Available now as a softcover edition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton describing new products and projects that have been produced since the book’s initial publication. Skin presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Skin features the work of such

Available now as a softcover edition, Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design contains a new preface by Ellen Lupton describing new products and projects that have been produced since the book’s initial publication. Skin presents products, furniture, fashion, architecture, and media that are expanding the limits of what we understand as surface. Skin features the work of such notable designers and architects as Greg Lynn, Petra Blaisse, Morphosis, Ross Lovegrove, and Marcel Wanders. It also contains essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces and a glossary of surface materials.

'As this book powerfully suggests, in an age of so many brilliant artificial skins, it is becoming increasingly hard and perhaps impossible to distinguish ourselves from the things that surround us.' —Eye

'Lupton regards skin as a cultural metaphor, which is what makes this beautifully produced book, with its often-disturbing images, so provocative.' —Architectural Record