UPDATE JULY 31, 2014 — This 416 page book has been retitled, Room: Inside Contemporary Interiors, and will ship October 20, 2014. Learn more and pre-order from Phaidon here.
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Object Agency is proud to announce Jon Otis is named a curator of 10×10 of Interior Design by Phaidon Press. This forthcoming compilation will present the 100 most interesting and significant interior design projects of today.
Jon is one of 10 curators chosen among leaders and influencers in the field — designers, editors, curators, critics, and educators.
Here’s what the Phaidon curator brief has to say:
“Known worldwide for our essential and inspiring books on all aspects of creativity, we have, over the last fifteen years, created a series of publications, each of which aims to be an exhibition in a book. The first, in 1998, was the highly acclaimed Cream, where 10 international curators selected the 10 artists set to be the starts of tomorrow, most of which have become among the most respected artists working today.
In 2000, we published the enormously successful 10×10, followed by 10x10_2 and 10x10_3, which recreated the format for architecture. Featuring curators from Zaha Hadid and Deyan Sudjic to Ai Weiwei and Kengo Kuma, the 100 nominated architects were considered to be the most interesting and significant working at the time. The books are defining publications of their time and thanks to the enormous amount of respect they engender, we have applied the same concept to the worlds of product design, graphic design, fashion, gastronomy and photography.”
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