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Title: Formica and Design: From the Counter Top to High Art by Susan Grant Lewin ISBN: 0-8478-1334-7 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $50.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Everything you ever wanted to know about it.
Comment: This is a book about about a product that we all take for granted but the history of Formica and its uses is quite fascinating. Author Lewin was the Creative Director of Formica from 1982 so don't expect to read anything untoward about the company, the twelve other contributors tell the story from their perspective, I particularly liked Jeffrey Meikle's essay on 'Plastics' and Susan Bayliss on 'Formica in Women's Lives'.

So this book will tell you all you need to know about the history of the product, in text and photos, plenty of them and this is where the book comes to a full stop.

The design is just infuriating! Only the right-hand pages have numbers, captions are all given a chapter and photo number, this is repeated near or on the relevant photo, now for the crazy bit, every photo has a bit cut out of it, it could be a triangular shape or a curve or maybe a bit of one photo on the same spread cut out and placed on another photo. This is just visual nonsense and I am surprised that a quality publisher like Rizzoli allowed this appalling design to go all the way through the editorial process and not get picked up.

A pity because it is an interesting book ruined by the work of some trendy designer who should go back to design school.