After years of intense research and analysis, the Institute for Contemporaneity IFZ is presenting its results for the first time in a comprehensive compendium:

With “The 100 Most Important Things,” the IFZ Ventures to publish a book that defies any simplifying logic and yet has an attractive appearance. The goal: Designating the conclusive material truths in a definitive, and understandable—even for non-academics—selection of exactly one hundred things—the most important (!) Things.

This may initially hardly seem spectacular, by boiling the selection down to the number of one hundred texts and one hundred photographs, this volume constitutes the first guide for orienting oneself in today's information society and introduces readers to a completely new perspective on the world of things. A book for everyone who wants to know more than they already do.

With short texts by Katja Eichinger, Rafael Horzon, Sophie Hunger, Daniel Kehlmann, Holger Liebs, Markus Lüpertz, Magnus Resch, Peter Richter, Claudius Seidl, Christiane Stenger a.o.

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Our services:

Book design & type setting

Team: Christine Lange & Patrick M. Sommer

Editors: Timon Karl Kaleyta, Tilman Ezra Mühlenberg, Samira El Ouassil, Martin Schlesinger, photographs: Mischa Lorenz

German, 256 pages, 100 illustrations
19.50 × 19.50 cm
ISBN 978-3-7757-4114-9

Awards:
The Beauty and the Book Award 2016
The Most Beautiful German Books 2016: Shortlist

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