Patented: A Thousand Ideas on Paper
Behind every object lies a drawing. Behind every drawing, a dream. Take this one from Thomas Rinaldi.
At first glance, it’s deceptively simple – a thousand patent drawings arranged chronologically. But there’s remarkable depth here.
Each page captures the moment an idea became real. Clean black lines tell stories of invention.
Eames chairs live next to tape dispensers. Noguchi lamps share space with pencil sharpeners. The iPhone sits beside the humble clothes iron.
Three inches thick. Twelve decades of human ingenuity. All in the same elegant line work.
No marketing gloss. No curator’s pretense. No hierarchy between high design and daily life.
From office desks to workshop benches, it’s the kind of book that makes you see the manufactured world around you with fresh eyes.
