Lars Müller Publishers is an independent Swiss publisher with a focus on design, architecture, art, photography, and visual culture. Since 1983, it has published books that treat content, form, and production as inseparable parts of the same idea.
The publishing house presents its program as a “school of seeing”. It offers a precise selection from the unmanageable flood of visual events, and brings together authors, designers, and artists who stand for quality and tenacity in their own right.
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Kenya Hara
Kenya Hara is considered the most influential designer of present-day Japan and has published widely on design theory. After graduating in design from the Musashino Art University of Kodaira in 1983, he worked as a curator and graphic designer before taking on the role of art director at Muji in 2002. Hara is president of the Nippon Design Center Inc., and head of the department of Science of Design at Musashino Art University.
Explore his core influences, design philosophy, and vision for the future via the titles below, or pick them up together in the Kenya Hara book bundle offered exclusively via the Lars Müller Publishers webshop.
Jasper Morrison
Born in London in 1959, Jasper Morrison is a designer whose work has shaped contemporary ideas about furniture, lighting, tableware, electronics, and everyday objects. His designs are produced internationally by leading manufacturers including Vitra, Flos, Alessi, Muji, Samsung, and others. Morrison is especially known for his commitment to quiet, useful, and long-lasting design. Rather than treating objects as statements, his work investigates how things become part of daily life: through proportion, familiarity, material intelligence, and restraint.
His relevance lies not only in the objects he has designed, but in the clarity of his position: design as careful observation, not novelty for its own sake. Through his books with Lars Müller Publishers, including A World Without Words, Super Normal, Everything but the Walls, and A Book of Things, Morrison has also contributed a precise and influential written language for understanding the role of objects in contemporary culture. View all books by Jasper Morrison.