Design Behind Desire: The Sensuous Textures of Wanting / Farameh Media

Design Behind Desire

The Sensuous Textures of Wanting

Curated by Lisa Z. Morgan

Creative Direction by Susanne Schaal

DESIGN BEHIND DESIRE is a beautifully conceived book about wanting, longing, yearning, generating and fulfilling of a highly sexual and erotic nature and, as an entity within itself, becomes an object of desire as each sensuously laden page is turned. It both demonstrates and embodies desire by exploring the most beautiful objects of and for desire where integrity, beauty, sexuality and sensuality are at the heart of the creations. All of the diverse objects, united in the strength of their vision, conceptual depth and a high degree of craftsmanship, provide nourishment for the imagination, demonstrating how the world of fetish wear and bondage provokes fashion and design in a tangible way. Traversing the pages of DESIGN BEHIND DESIRE the heat rises as we explore desire through the three chapters and phases; Generating, Contemplating and Fulfilling. Hidden within Fulfilling desire, we also discover the Cabinet of Desire; a beautifully photographed volume immersed with desirous text where the mind is encouraged to wander.

LISA Z. MORGAN is an artist and co-founder of Strumpet & Pink. The subject and object of desire has been a palpable constant within her artistic, commercial and consultancy work both as a motivation and in its embodiment or articulation. Through her creativity and research she questions how the value of provenance, of rarity and storytelling, puts into question or provokes our understanding and relationship towards desire and our personal measures of wanting.

368 pp. hardcover and jacket with open slit

Over 300 color photos

32.4 x 24.8 cm / 12.75 x 9.75 inches

ISBN 978-0-9830-8315-3

$95.00 USD / € 75.00 / £ 65.00