Design and Violence - Hardcover Woven Histories the Universal Base Table is

the Universal Base Table is an elegant take on the modern round dining table

many kinds of reception are possible

the photograph testifies to the artist’s lifelong entanglement with the truths and tensions that animate African American experiences

die-cast aluminum frame and legs

Design and Violence - Hardcover Woven Histories the Universal Base Table isTo look inside this book, click here. Edited by Paola Antonelli and Jamer Hunt Design has a history of violence, yet professional discourse around design has been dominated by voices that only trumpet its commercial and aesthetic successes. Violence, defined here as the manifestation of the power to alter circumstances against the will of others and to their detriment, has always been ubiquitous, and in recent years technology has introduced dramatic