John Dieboll
Sandy Davis
David R. Godine, Boston, 2001, English
Nonfiction, Product/Industrial Design
8.3 x 6.3 inches, hardcover, 96 pages
ISBN: 9781567921748
Suggested Retail Price: $24.95

From the Publisher. Inspired by or intended for legendary performers past and present, this is a genuinely eccentric book, but there is nothing remotely ethereal about these meticulously drawn and consistently inventive designs, from the case designed for Glenn Gould with its flat rectilinear screens with a single window, allowing only his feet to be seen, to the lid for George Gershwin showing a man and woman dancing together, she lyrical and romantic, he percussive and propulsive. A book of designs for piano lids? Why not? It's beautiful, it's original, it will make a perfect, unexpected gift for anyone who loves music or has the imagination to appreciate the creativity and originality that invest a talent like John Diebboll.

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