A piece of furniture, a kitchen gadget, a child's toy, a car, a logo: as attitudes to fine art and contemporary design began to change during the 20th century, so certain everyday artifacts began to achieve a new status. Classics of Design illustrates more than 80 objects that have become modern design classics —some because of their sheer artistic flamboyance; others because they combined practical utilitarianism with visual style or offered new solutions to space-saving challenges and changing lifestyles; and yet others where their popularity alone made them universally familiar and therefore irreplaceable.