No, this is not a design book in the usual sense. Here, personal stories are told - amusing, entertaining, and knowledgeable. The actors are architects, designers, inventors, artists, but also chairs, armchairs, tables, and lamps. While reading, one joyfully immerses in stories of creation. They speak of the spirit of the times and pioneering efforts, of inventions, innovative materials, and techniques. It is always also about ideas, visions, passions, and of course, about copies, failures, disputes, and intrigues. Each of these episodes is closely linked to its product, giving it, so to speak, soul and identity. Thus, an anonymous seating device suddenly becomes an interesting companion, whose biography invites further storytelling. This is a culture of memory being cultivated. And that is exactly how it should be. It is a book against forgetting. Among others, Aino and Alvar Aalto, Max Bill, Marcel Breuer.