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The 80 iconic objects featured here include the Polaroid Land camera, the Swiss Army Knife and the Coca-Cola bottle, while the designers range from the well known (Le Corbusier, René Lalique or Philippe Starck) to Walter Hunt, the mechanic who designed the safety pin. Each item is depicted in a double-page spread detailing its history and examining its effectiveness and style.

In this volume from the attractive Masterpieces of Art series, Susie Hodge presents a concise introduction to the British painter, designer, wood-engraver and war artist Eric Ravilious (1903–42), followed by around 90 full-page reproductions. Among the works shown are colour lithographs of shops from High Street (1938); idiosyncratic landscapes, including The Westbury Horse; and a selection of war art, ending with the watercolour painting Runway Perspective.

The purity and austerity of the work of Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) radically changed painting and attitudes towards it, and also had a profound influence on architecture and design. Here, Susie Hodge traces the artist's life and the development of his art in an illustrated essay accompanying a gallery of 90 reproductions of works, arranged chronologically from the naturalist paintings of the 1890s to Victory Boogie Woogie, left unfinished at Mondrian's death in New York in 1944.

A hugely influential artist, Paul Klee (1879–1940) eludes classification. During a prolific career he produced astonishing artworks full of colour, inspired by his many travels and by time spent at the revolutionary Bauhaus. Beginning with Susie Hodge's introductory essay, this fresh look at Klee's art presents some 90 reproductions aranged in three sections: early mystical and abstract subjects, works from his years at the Bauhaus and in Dusseldorf, and the late works. Masterpieces of Art series.