A pocket sized volume in the Design Diretories series which provides an A to Z guide to the important design objects in a particular country.

Review:

Anthropology of the present: the entries in a new softcover series of design directories have the chunky heft of a Boy Scout Handbook. Paola Antonelli, the Museum of Modern Art's curator for design and architecture, wrote the books' introductions. They take an anthropological viewpoint and, she said, "Nothing could be more interesting." Interesting, but not stuffy.... -- The New York Times, July 29, 1999