B is for Bauhaus

This an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us. It's about our obsession with collecting, the quest for authenticity and the creation of national identities. It's about Hitchcock's film sets and why we value imperfection. It's about fashion and technology, about politics and art. "A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design...It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic." (Evening Standard).

Deyan Sudjic is the director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and the Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice architecture biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.