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This volume presents over 300 works from the collection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna and private collections. It focuses on the history of glassmaking in Austria from 1900 to 1937, a period spanning the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic. The collaboration between architects and designers created the(...)
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The glass of the architects: Vienna 1900-1937
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This volume presents over 300 works from the collection of the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art in Vienna and private collections. It focuses on the history of glassmaking in Austria from 1900 to 1937, a period spanning the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic. The collaboration between architects and designers created the style of Viennese glass, found in new projects such as the Wiener Werkstätte or the Austrian Werkbund.
Porto azulejos
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Du nord au sud du Portugal, les édifices resplendissent grâce aux reflets des azulejos. Ces carreaux de faïence polychromes, initialement à dominante bleue, sont l’élément constant de l’architecture portugaise depuis plusieurs siècles. Médaillons religieux au-dessus des linteaux, frises encadrant portes et fenêtres, lambris tapissant de longs murs, habillage de façades(...)
Porto azulejos
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Du nord au sud du Portugal, les édifices resplendissent grâce aux reflets des azulejos. Ces carreaux de faïence polychromes, initialement à dominante bleue, sont l’élément constant de l’architecture portugaise depuis plusieurs siècles. Médaillons religieux au-dessus des linteaux, frises encadrant portes et fenêtres, lambris tapissant de longs murs, habillage de façades entières, ils brillent de leur présence à chaque coin de rue et nul ne peut échapper à leur pouvoir de fascination. Lointains descendants des céramiques perses, les premiers azulejos hispano-mauresques connus datent du xve siècle. Depuis cinq siècles, les azulejos sont le miroir du Portugal. Si sur eux ont glissé le soleil, la pluie et les jours, ils ont fixé, au fil de l’histoire du pays, l’esprit et le goût de toute une nation, au point d’en devenir un des symboles les plus reconnaissables. Passant par plusieurs périodes, dont celle de la fin du xviie siècle où les azulejos sont exclusivement peints en bleu cobalt, au xixe siècle ils connaissent une production industrielle et inventive qui accompagnera le revêtement total en azulejos à patron des murs extérieurs des édifices. Cette mode – et choix aussi lié à l’humidité – est très présente au nord du Portugal et notamment à Porto. Belle ville, Porto offre au passant un choix surprenant de styles. Les lambris d’azulejos suivent les grands courants stylistiques : romantisme, purement hygiénique, Art nouveau, Art déco, estampage géométrique, abstrait, publicitaire, etc. Ce livre propose un aperçu de ces fresques et façades curieuses et uniques que le visiteur pourra découvrir au gré de ses promenades, et précise leur localisation dans la ville. Un livre témoin, découverte ou souvenir de cet art de l’azulejo dans lequel Porto excelle.
Design, Periods and Styles
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Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an(...)
Jet age aesthetic: the glamour of media in motion
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Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane’s power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft’s speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms as diverse as airport architecture, theme park design, film, and photography, Schwartz argues that the jet created an aesthetic that circulated on the ground below. Visual and media culture, including Eero Saarinen’s airports, David Bailey’s photographs of the jet set, and Ernst Haas’s experiments in color photojournalism glamorized the imagery of motion. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of The Walt Disney Studios, Schwartz also examines the period’s most successful example of fluid motion meeting media culture: Disneyland. The park’s dedication to “people-moving” defined Walt Disney’s vision, shaping the very identity of the place. The jet age aesthetic laid the groundwork for our contemporary media culture, in which motion is so fluid that we can surf the internet while going nowhere at all.
Design, Periods and Styles
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The effervescent, creative synergy among Italian artists and designers in the post-war, post-fascist period is the subject of this exhibition catalogue for a show in Paris held at the end of 2019. Forty works of avant-garde art and design highlight the common aspirations and experimental spirit of this visionary generation, featuring artists and works that mirror each(...)
Utopia: Italian art and design
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The effervescent, creative synergy among Italian artists and designers in the post-war, post-fascist period is the subject of this exhibition catalogue for a show in Paris held at the end of 2019. Forty works of avant-garde art and design highlight the common aspirations and experimental spirit of this visionary generation, featuring artists and works that mirror each other in their approach to the world. Included here are works by Lucio Fontana, Carlo Mollino, Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Carlo Scarpa, Gino Sarfatti, Dadamaino, Alighiero Boetti, Mimmo Rotella, Gio Ponti, and Piero Manzoni, among others. In this book, Italian artists, architects, and designers reveal their exceptional ability to overturn the boundaries between art and design. Their visionary modernism is still influential today.
Design, Periods and Styles
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The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting,(...)
With pleasure : Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985
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The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This book showcases works by more than 40 artists from across the United States, examining the movement’s defiant adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine, craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art.
Design, Periods and Styles
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Respected as the international authority on architecture and design, ''Architectural Digest'' magazine gives readers an exclusive look into the most spectacular properties and private homes of celebrities and cultural figures, highlighting the work of the world's top architects, designers, and interior decorators. This volume celebrates the evolution of the revered(...)
Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a magazine, 1920-2010
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Respected as the international authority on architecture and design, ''Architectural Digest'' magazine gives readers an exclusive look into the most spectacular properties and private homes of celebrities and cultural figures, highlighting the work of the world's top architects, designers, and interior decorators. This volume celebrates the evolution of the revered magazine as told through the voice of its legendary editor for four decades, Paige Rense. An epic visual history of the magazine's meteoric rise penned by Rense, this volume documents exclusively and intimately the renowned magazine's history and cultural significance, and celebration of the ever evolving homes and lifestyles. This volume is full of candid recollections, commentary, archival covers, and interior shots of the magazine and also features the work of the world's top architects and interior designers such as Mario Buatta, Philip Johnson, Tony Duquette, and Sally Sirkin Lewis, as well as the homes of celebrities like Truman Capote, Sonny & Cher, Elton John, Diane Keaton and Ralph Lauren. Each chapter, written in the first person--is followed by lavishly illustrated anecdotes from Rense's memories of past issues. As the editor who gave readers a glimpse into the most enviable homes around the world, Rense is uniquely qualified to tell the story of ''Architectural Digest,'' a tale that her nearly one million loyal fans and readers of the magazine will be eager to read.
Design, Periods and Styles
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In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day – not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their(...)
Mid-century modern: Visionary furniture design from Vienna
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In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day – not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics of twentieth-century furniture design, the epitome of mid-century modern style. This book honors the memory of the exiled designers with a thorough overview of their work. It details their life stories and their visionary designs, which remain as relevant and contemporary as ever, and brings to light new aspects of the history of Viennese furniture design.
Design, Periods and Styles
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At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inventions. Featuring 150 exemplary objects ranging from mechanical toys to scientific instruments, timepieces to automata, this(...)
Making marvels: science and splendour at the courts of Europe
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At once beautiful works of art and technological wonders, the objects featured in "Making Marvels" demonstrate how European royalty from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment signaled their status through their collections of ingeniously crafted inventions. Featuring 150 exemplary objects ranging from mechanical toys to scientific instruments, timepieces to automata, this study brings to life a glorious period when luxury, a quest for knowledge, scientific invention, and political power combined to produce remarkable works of art. More than frivolous playthings, these works inspired technical innovations that influenced a broad spectrum of activities, including astronomy, engineering, and artisanal craftsmanship.
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In the mid-1960s, reacting to contemporary social and political upheaval, young Italian architects and designers began developing a new style that openly challenged Modernism. Known as 'Radical design', this movement probed possibilities for visually transforming the urban environment. This publication surveys the work of these pioneering designers through nearly 70(...)
Radical: Italian design 1965-1985. The Dennis Freedman collection
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In the mid-1960s, reacting to contemporary social and political upheaval, young Italian architects and designers began developing a new style that openly challenged Modernism. Known as 'Radical design', this movement probed possibilities for visually transforming the urban environment. This publication surveys the work of these pioneering designers through nearly 70 objects and architectural models — including rare prototypes and limited-production pieces.
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With eighty tales of design, laid out in A to Z format, and an irreverent structure, this becomes a picture book for the refined adult. Each letter delves into one facet of this enduring era of design: midcentury modern homes, interior design, graphic design, and illustration, as well as the iconic personalities.
From A to Eames: a visual guide to mid-century modern design
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With eighty tales of design, laid out in A to Z format, and an irreverent structure, this becomes a picture book for the refined adult. Each letter delves into one facet of this enduring era of design: midcentury modern homes, interior design, graphic design, and illustration, as well as the iconic personalities.
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Design, Periods and Styles