The adidas Archive. The Footwear Collection
$200.00
ABOUT:
100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents the first visual review of the adidas shoe through more than 350 models including never-before-seen prototypes and one-of-a-kind originals.
This collection now makes up the "adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years.
What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved them—but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports, design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler brothers and the founding of adidas until today.
“This book tells you everything you ever wanted to know about Adidas sneakers.” - highsnobiety.com
DETAILS:
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Contributors: Christian Habermeier, Sebastian Jäger.
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Carbon neutral publisher from Cologne, Germany.
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Size: Hardcover, 31.8 x 29.6 cm, 644 pages.
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Language: English.
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