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An extensive and timely survey of innovative contemporary design in the Netherlands: always verging on the experimental and recognized universally as a melting-pot of cutting-edge twenty-first century creativity. This overview features work by Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Marcel Wanders, Petra Blaisse, and Jop van Bennekom, among others. 1,000 images offer a visual sourcebook of Dutch design in all forms including architecture, urban planning, industrial design and graphic design.

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Library Journal Review

As shown in this elegant book, much of the design in today's world may have been inherited from the Dutch. As the human population continues to multiply and urbanize, we will undoubtedly live in increasingly planned environments. The Dutch have a head start, since they have been reclaiming land and creating new settlements for centuries. With the help of designer Irma Boom, writer-curators Betsky and Eeuwens showcase contemporary design from the Netherlands through 550 color illustrations and thoughtful essays that help further establish the Dutch sensibility and its government's support for culture. The authors also consider high modernist Rem Koolhaas the presiding genius of Dutch design. If this collection is indeed representative, then full-frontal female nudes are quite prominent in Dutch design. North American readers will do double takes. An evocative, witty product for contemporary European design collections.-David R. Conn, Surrey P.L., B.C. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.