Jane Withers is a design consultant, writer and curator based in London.
She writes widely on design and architecture for newspapers and magazines, and is currently completing 72% Man and Water (Phaidon Autumn 2008), exploring the role design can play in shaping a new water consciousness for the 21st century.
As a design consultant, she works on strategy, design development and creative direction for international clients. As a curator, she advises on collecting modern and contemporary design. She is currently working on an exhibition on water and design for Z33, Hasseldt (June - September 2008).
Jane studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and has an MA in design history from the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum.
Bibliography:
Skin Deep: Portraits of Alistair Thain, text by Jane Withers. Penguin 1991.
Jean Nouvel. ICA London/Arc en reve Centre d'Architecture, Bordeaux /Artemis1993.
Art Random No. 65: New British Graphic Designers by Jane Withers. Kyoto Shoin International Japan,1995.
The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Fashion Writing, edited by Judith Watt. Penguin, 1999. Essay on Comme des Garçons
Hot Water: Bathing and the Contemporary Bathroom by Jane Withers, photography by Christoph Kicherer. Quadrille,1999 Paperback, 2004.
Space Within: Reshape Your Home for Contemporary Living by Jane Withers photography by Christoph Kicherer. Quadrille, 2000 .Paperback 2002
Tara: Homage to a Bathroom Fitting and an Archetype edited by Thomas Edelmann, Birkhauser, 2003. Essay on the development of the modern bathroom
A Book of Wonder by Nicholas Blincoe, Alannah Weston, Robert Violette, and Jane Withers. Selfridges, 2007.
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