LONDON IN FIFTY DESIGN ICONS

The world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form, from furniture to fashion, architecture to graphics, the Design Museum works to place design at the centre of contemporary culture. Deyan Sudjic is a leading figure in the field of architectural theory and has been Director of the museum since 2006 and previously an architecture critic for the Observer. His chapters cover Chritopher Wren, The Pub, Trafalgar Square, Gin, Sir John Soane's Museum, The Regents Park, Tower Bridge, Borough Market, Greenwich Meridian, Selfridges & Co., The Tube Map, The London Taxi, Pevsner's London, Routemaster, Heathrow, BT Tower, Roundhouse, Barbican, Royal College of Art, Time Out, Abbey Road, London in Film, M25, Lloyd's of London, Blue Plaques, Canary Wharf, Serpentine Pavilion, Lord's, Tate Turbine Hall, Millennium Bridge, City Hall, The Wolseley, Haywood Gallery Undercroft, White Cube Bermondsey, and Central London's Skyscrapers among them, each with a one page write up and full page colour photograph. A beautifully designed handbook published by Conran, 112pp.