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Form follow Idea: a new book by Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball, which explores the author's ideas about design, art and poetics. Published by Black Dog Publishing www.bdpworld.com

'Not for nothing are Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball widely regarded as among Britain’s most thoughtful furniture designers. They have been building up to this book for a long time, slowly and carefully generating the intellectual impetus to carry their study of the meaning of objects into the territory where design meets art. Practical philosophy could be one way to describe their approach.'
Jeremy Myerson (Professor of design studies and co-director of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art)

Recent & Future Exhibitions

2004 Brilliant V and A Museum London
Salone Satellite Milan International Furniture Fair Italy
2005 Le Design, c’est le Design Mouvements Modernes Paris France Jan-Feb 2005
Free Radicals 4 The Hub Sleaford UK. 8 April to 30 May 2005
Rhetorical Design from the UK Spring Gallery New York. May 15 to June 12, 2005
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts London 7 June-15 August
News from Nowhere Visions of Utopia William Morris Gallery London September/October
Christmas Show Contemporary Applied Arts London Nov/Dec
2006 The Poetics of the Everyday Maxine Naylor and Ralph Ball Oct- Nov, 2005. Podium Gallery Mackintosh School of Architecture Glasgow School of Art 9-28Jan

For further information, please email info@studioball.co.uk