About the Author

Adam Lindemann is a New York-based entrepreneur and financier, who started collecting tribal art as well as works of artists of the '80s before turning to contemporary art, his passion for several years and the impetus for his previous TASCHEN title, Collecting Contemporary. His love of iconic design was sparked while furnishing a new house several years ago; ever since he has been consumed by a burning desire to know everything about the subject.

Reviews

"Lindemann writes: "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."