Nine-hundred Ninety-nine Modern Designs On The Wall

Why not kick off this holiday weekend with some summer reading that will take you into fall of 2009? The hefty three-volume, 999-object Phaidon Design Classics is available for about $100 or $0.10 an object. Rob Forbes seems like he read the thing cover to cover to cover to cover to cover to cover in this commentary at Design Within Reach.

While some are interested in the contents, others are infinitely more intrigued with the presentation–the “overly designed” carrying case (overly designed by Konstantin Grcic, as a matter of fact) is getting blisteringly bad reviews, like this one on the Amazon

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