From furniture to graphics, 20th-century designers shaped the world with a dizzying variety of materials, from the organic to the geometric, from Art Deco, through to Pop and High-Tech. All the great names – Alvar Aalto, Harry Bertoia, De Stijl, Dieter Rams, Philippe Starck, Charles and Ray Eames, to name only a very few. This book is a comprehensive journey through the shapes and colours, forms and functions of design history in the 20th century. An A-Z of designers and design schools.