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1. Philippe Garner

   Author of Sixties Design, Eileen Gray : design and architecture, 1878-1976

2. Donald Albrecht

   Author of Work of Charles and Ray Eames

3. Charlotte Fiell

   Author of 1000 Chairs (Taschen 25)

4. Spiro Kostof

   Author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals

5. Victor Papanek

   Author of Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

6. Frank Whitford

   Author of Bauhaus

7. John Heskett

   Author of Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life

8. Alexander Payne

   Author of The Coffee Table, Coffee Table Book

9. Fariello M. Anna

   Author of Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives on Art and Craft

10. Cat Martin

    Author of The Surface Texture Bible: More Than 800 Color and Texture Samples for Every Surface, Furnishing, and Finish

11. John F. Pile

    Author of Dictionary of 20th Century Design

12. Robert L. Herbert

    Author of Modern artists on art; ten unabridged essays

13. Stephen Calloway

    Author of The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present

14. Henry-Russell Hitchcock

    Author of The International Style

15. Barbara Bloemink

    Author of Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006

16. David Pye

    Author of Nature of Design

17. Nikolaus Pevsner

    Author of Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition

18. Terence Conran

    Author of Designers on Design

19. Leslie A. Piña

    Author of Fifties Furniture (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)

20. Susan Stewart

    Author of On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection