Publisher's Synopsis
Most people would not automatically think of manhole covers as works of art but that, suggest the authors, may be because they have not realized what they are looking at. Scouring the pavements of London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and Berlin, they show how the humble street cover has become a classic of industrial design, as worthy of our admiration as fountains, phone boxes or any other item of street furniture that now enjoys iconic status.;With its collection of colour photographs of the bold and beautiful, the barely-believable and the seriously bizarre, this book turns outside in to bring the streets of Europe to your living room.
