Collidoscope: New Interior Design by Nigel Coates

Collidoscope: New Interior Design by Nigel Coates

The book is designed to give a stimulating idea of the current direction of international interior design by Nigel Coates, one of the foremost practitioners in the field. The author has selected approximately 30 international designers whose work he thinks is especially interesting. The book will then present a selection of work by these designers in such a way that the relations between different designers (both the differences and similarities) are brought out as well as broader themes in current interior design.

While each project selected will be featured over a series of pages, the same project may crop up at various other points through book. The purpose of this is to draw comparisons between each project by letting them cross over into one another's territory. Hence 'Collidoscope', the provisional title of the publication. As such, it should work both as a sourcebook with reference to current tendencies in design and to the ideas that underpin them. It will foreground the designers yet raise challenging differences and overlaps between them.

Nigel Coates is a designer, architect, and educator. In 1983, he created the NATO group with eight of his former classmates. In 1985, he founded Branson Coates Architecture with Doug Branson, and the two collaborated extensively in Japan and the United Kingdom. He has created products and furniture for Hitch Mylius, Alessi, Fornasetti, and Slamp, among others. The V&A has his drawings and furnishings in its collection.

He is the author of various publications, the most recent of which is Handbook to Ecstasy (2003). Coates was Professor of Architectural Design at the Royal College of Art in London for almost 15 years.