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This sumptuously illustrated volume presents over 180 outstanding Viennese silver objects representing the period from Neoclassicism to the Wiener Werkstätte. Comparing early eighteenth-century works with examples of twentieth-century design and architecture, it offers a fascinating look at Vienna's contribution to the development of modern decorative arts. The authors(...)
August 2003, Ostfildern
Viennese silver : modern design 1780-1918
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This sumptuously illustrated volume presents over 180 outstanding Viennese silver objects representing the period from Neoclassicism to the Wiener Werkstätte. Comparing early eighteenth-century works with examples of twentieth-century design and architecture, it offers a fascinating look at Vienna's contribution to the development of modern decorative arts. The authors demonstrate how the roots of modern design go back further than is generally assumed. Achieving remarkable clarity and formal reduction, Viennese Biedermeier designers created everyday objects of silver with astonishingly straightforward and purposeful forms that remain as progressive as ever today. In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser drew inspiration from the intellectual legacy of the period in their designs for the Wiener Werkstätte. Many of the ideas introduced by the Viennese avant-garde were later expressed in such movements as the Bauhaus and De Stijl. By examining this history in all its complexity, the book traces the development of the vocabulary for contemporary design.
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This broad selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that in this context, playful humor and clarity are by no means opposites, but a highly unusual duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate. The question addressed by this publication is : are these examples from three professions, various regions and languages, and a(...)
December 2006, Baden
Playfully rigid : Swiss archtiecture, graphic design, product design, 1950-2006
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This broad selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that in this context, playful humor and clarity are by no means opposites, but a highly unusual duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate. The question addressed by this publication is : are these examples from three professions, various regions and languages, and a period of more than fifty years bound together by a common denominator? No parade of luxury items, but talents and ideas finding material expression and clients with the courage to embrace new "inventions", presented with examples from architecture, graphic design, and design : movie theaters, swimming pools, pedestrian bridges, gas stations, posters, journals, record and CD covers, books, web design, furniture, and the legendary TEE train (Trans-Europe Express). This publication is accompanied by an exhibition at the Kornhausforum in Bern, which then goes on to additional locations throughout the world.
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Si le rôle joué par le dessin dans l’alchimie de la peinture n’est plus à démontrer, plus secrète est sa place dans le domaine des arts décoratifs. Prisées pour les ornemanistes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, les "feuilles" d’arts décoratifs sont à redécouvrir pour le XIXe siècle, même si le destin ne les a sauvées qu’avec parcimonie de la destruction. Depuis sa(...)
L'objet et son double : dessins d'arts décoratifs des collections du musée d'Orsay
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Si le rôle joué par le dessin dans l’alchimie de la peinture n’est plus à démontrer, plus secrète est sa place dans le domaine des arts décoratifs. Prisées pour les ornemanistes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, les "feuilles" d’arts décoratifs sont à redécouvrir pour le XIXe siècle, même si le destin ne les a sauvées qu’avec parcimonie de la destruction. Depuis sa création, le musée d’Orsay a eu à coeur d’en assembler une collection significative dont une sélection est exposée, à partir des fonds des artistes les plus emblématiques tels Viollet-le-Duc, Lassus, Bracquemond, Bugatti, Gallé, Lalique, Van de Velde, etc.
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December 2006, Paris
Design, Periods and Styles
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Contents : problems and methods from idelogy to strategy for social development ; the Academy for applied art, Zagreb, 1949-1955 ; institutional forms of the promotion of design ; product design ; graphic design ; towards synthesis of design and environment ; set design ; the artistic architecture department and the Academy of fine arts ; conclusion ; catalogue ;(...)
Design of the fifties in Croatia : from utopia to reality
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Contents : problems and methods from idelogy to strategy for social development ; the Academy for applied art, Zagreb, 1949-1955 ; institutional forms of the promotion of design ; product design ; graphic design ; towards synthesis of design and environment ; set design ; the artistic architecture department and the Academy of fine arts ; conclusion ; catalogue ; documents AAA ; documents Ritz bar ; bibliography ; sources ; abbreviations.
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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
March 2008, Rotterdam
Chairs: catalogue of the Delft faculty of architecture collection
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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection of over 240 chairs is presented for the first time. Each object is accompanied by images and a thorough description. Also, the book offers comprehensive texts on key designs in the collection, showing the diversity of the collection which consists of world famous designs, 17th, 18th and 19th century designs, everyday household chairs and rare pieces of furniture that have never been published before. Among the designers presented are Verner Panton, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer and Droog Design.
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Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester, England, in 1776 to avoid persecution, the Shakers crossed the Atlantic and during the next 50 years established 19 villages from Maine to Kentucky. The Shakers(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
April 2008, New York, Vermont, New Haven, London
Shaker Design out of this world
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Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester, England, in 1776 to avoid persecution, the Shakers crossed the Atlantic and during the next 50 years established 19 villages from Maine to Kentucky. The Shakers were guided by the principles of utility, honesty, and order in both their work and worship, and this belief system influenced the physical expression of the goods they produced for use at home and for sale outside their communities. This lovely book presents a wide array of extraordinarily fine examples of Shaker furniture, household objects, textiles, religious drawings, and items made to sell to the “world’s people” (non-Shakers). The book’s expert contributors discuss Shaker design in relation to the furniture they constructed, the products they sold, their gift drawings and spirituality, and their rejection of American Fancy design. The book also considers the powerful inspiration Shaker design has provided for diverse modern and contemporary designers, including George Nakashima, Roy McMakin, Thomas Moser, and Scandinavian furniture makers.
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In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conception of objects as being more than commodities. "Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades," wrote Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by examining objects produced by Constructivist artists between(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
April 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Imagine no possessions: the socialist objects of Russian constructivism
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In Imagine No Possessions, Christina Kiaer investigates the Russian Constructivist conception of objects as being more than commodities. "Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades," wrote Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925. Kiaer analyzes this Constructivist counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by examining objects produced by Constructivist artists between 1923 and 1925: Vladimir Tatlin's prototype designs for pots and pans and other everyday objects, Liubov' Popova's and Varvara Stepanova's fashion designs and textiles, Rodchenko's packaging and advertisements for state-owned businesses (made in collaboration with revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky), and Rodchenko's famous design for the interior of a workers' club. These artists, heeding the call of Constructivist manifestos to abandon the nonobjective painting and sculpture of the early Russian avant-garde and enter into Soviet industrial production, aimed to work as "artist-engineers" to produce useful objects for everyday life in the new socialist collective.
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April 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Design, Periods and Styles
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The Cubist movement, which revolutionized the art world in the early twentieth century, was largely restricted to painting and sculpture in Western Europe. However, in Bohemia, Cubism achieved remarkable heights not only in painting and sculpture, but also in architecture and the applied arts. The startling work created by the Czech avant-garde of the early 1900s has(...)
Czech cubism : Architecture, furniture, and decorative arts, 1910-1925
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The Cubist movement, which revolutionized the art world in the early twentieth century, was largely restricted to painting and sculpture in Western Europe. However, in Bohemia, Cubism achieved remarkable heights not only in painting and sculpture, but also in architecture and the applied arts. The startling work created by the Czech avant-garde of the early 1900s has rarely been seen outside of Eastern Europe. ''Czech cubism'' presents a collection of architecture, furniture, and decorative arts through more than 500 photographs and drawings. Essays by nine noted scholars provide historical and critical background for the work.
UAM Les modernes à l'épreuve
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Métal contre bois, industrie contre artisanat, équipement contre décoration, peuple contre élite. La création de l'Union des artistes modernes (UAM), en 1929, par René Herbst, Francis Jourdain, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Hélène Henry et Raymond Templier, est souvent présentée comme une scission des "modernes" contre les "anciens", réunis au sein de la Société des artistes(...)
UAM Les modernes à l'épreuve
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Métal contre bois, industrie contre artisanat, équipement contre décoration, peuple contre élite. La création de l'Union des artistes modernes (UAM), en 1929, par René Herbst, Francis Jourdain, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Hélène Henry et Raymond Templier, est souvent présentée comme une scission des "modernes" contre les "anciens", réunis au sein de la Société des artistes décorateurs (Sad). Ces modernes, auxquels se joindront Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, les frères Martel, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé et bien d'autres, militent pour un art fonctionnaliste, sans ornement, destiné au plus grand nombre. Ils auraient tourné le dos aux Décorateurs et à l'artisanat de luxe, incarné par l'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes de 1925, pour créer un mouvement en phase avec les besoins de leur époque.
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Art Deco Chicago
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An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century.
Art Deco Chicago
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An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century.
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