<DIV><p><b>Insiders&rsquo; Tips on Your Favorite Design and How to Enjoy and Make Profit</b><BR> <BR> <B>Adam Lindemann</B>&rsquo;s previous book for TASCHEN, <I>Collecting Contemporary</I>, has been an unprecedented success, introducing the lay reader to collecting contemporary art, with tell-all interviews by the biggest players in the global art market. Where this book was mainly the outcome of Lindemann&rsquo;s personal fascination with the art, <I>Collecting Design</I>, in similar fashion, started when he was furnishing his new house. &quot;Art collectors like myself who hung beautiful contemporary paintings on their walls suddenly saw their furniture look sad and tired,&quot; Lindemann writes in his preface and relates how hobby became passion and an overwhelming desire to know everything. Which is how this latest volume manages to give such <B>a perfect introduction into collectible design</B>: it follows the path its author went.<BR> <BR> It all started in the late eighteenth century: artists designed porcelain pieces that became editioned works in high demand. Art Deco to the Wiener Werkstätte, Bauhaus to the Eameses, the French modernists, and a whole bunch of designers you haven&rsquo;t heard of yet, <B>this volume is the best guide to the collectability and overall desirability of the best design</B> for connoisseurs and anybody interested in the way we live today.<BR> <BR> <I>Collecting Design </I>tells all about an addictive occupation, vintage pieces vs. limited editions, the big names and what to keep an eye on, <B>all from the perspective of a passionate collector meeting market luminaries for in-depth conversations</B>&mdash;his fellow<B> collectors</B> (Bruno Bischofberger, Michael Boyd, Peter Brant, Dennis Freedman, Reed Krakoff, Ronald Lauder, Rachel Lehmann), the <B>dealers </B>(Anthony DeLorenzo, Suzanne Demisch, Barry Friedman, Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, Murray Moss, Patrick Seguin, Alasdhair Willis), select <B>tastemakers</B> (Jacques Grange, Marc Jacobs, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Marino, Robert Rubin, Ian Schrager, Axel Vervoordt), and <B>auction experts </B>(Philippe Garner from Christie&rsquo;s, Alexander Payne from Phillips de Pury, Richard Wright, James Zemaitis from Sotheby&rsquo;s). <BR> <BR> Lindemann writes: <I>&quot;Sitting down for hours with 24 experts, I can now discuss the finer points of Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann versus Eileen Gray, Carlo Mollino versus Gio Ponti, of Marc Newson versus Ron Arad, and so on. I hope you will enjoy and profit from this fascinating field as much as I have.&quot;</I></p></DIV>