Essential Modernism
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This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and ‘30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s. Modernism, with its powerful aesthetic and compelling philosophical framework, is the twentieth century’s most defining movement in design and the(...)
Essential Modernism
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This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and ‘30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s. Modernism, with its powerful aesthetic and compelling philosophical framework, is the twentieth century’s most defining movement in design and the applied arts. International architects and designers such as Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized the built world and how we live in it. Their work rejected historical precedents, prioritizing function over tradition, and their experimentation with new forms, materials, and techniques transformed our living spaces and lifestyles and fundamentally changed the way we think about design.
Design, Periods and Styles
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Featuring more than 90 pieces by over 60 designers and design duos, ''Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design'' is arranged chronologically, and includes chairs, tables, storage, lighting, and product and industrial designs. On each spread, an illustration of the piece is accompanied by a concise overview: an index of models, designers and manufacturers.
Mid-century modern: icons of design
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Featuring more than 90 pieces by over 60 designers and design duos, ''Mid-Century Modern: Icons of Design'' is arranged chronologically, and includes chairs, tables, storage, lighting, and product and industrial designs. On each spread, an illustration of the piece is accompanied by a concise overview: an index of models, designers and manufacturers.
Design, Periods and Styles
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Le craft est depuis longtemps l’objet de débats passionnés qui nécessitent aujourd’hui un éclairage critique et théorique renouvelé, que le seul terme d’« artisanat » restreint parfois. Politiques, écologiques, entrepreneuriales, humanitaires, patrimoniales, technologiques ou éducatives, les formes du craft se sont, ces dernières années, étendues, réinventées mais aussi(...)
Crafts : anthologie contemporaine pour un artisanat de demain
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Le craft est depuis longtemps l’objet de débats passionnés qui nécessitent aujourd’hui un éclairage critique et théorique renouvelé, que le seul terme d’« artisanat » restreint parfois. Politiques, écologiques, entrepreneuriales, humanitaires, patrimoniales, technologiques ou éducatives, les formes du craft se sont, ces dernières années, étendues, réinventées mais aussi complexifiées.
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.
Design, Periods and Styles
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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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March 2019
Design, Periods and Styles
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The Soviet Union has left a vast heritage in interior design that is largely unknown in the West. Other than architecture and graphic or product design, interior design from the Soviet era has not yet been thoroughly investigated. This publication offers a comprehensive survey of the country's interior design culture between revolutionary avant-garde and late Soviet(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
April 2020
Soviet design: from Constructivism to Modernism, 1920-1980
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The Soviet Union has left a vast heritage in interior design that is largely unknown in the West. Other than architecture and graphic or product design, interior design from the Soviet era has not yet been thoroughly investigated. This publication offers a comprehensive survey of the country's interior design culture between revolutionary avant-garde and late Soviet modernism. Drawing on archives that were inaccessible until recently and featuring a wealth of previously unpublished material, it documents the achievements of seven decades in the former socialist empire.
Design, Periods and Styles
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The “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from the home altogether, the(...)
April 2019
Home futures: living in yesterday's tomorrow
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The “home of the future” has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from the home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today and patterns of use in the sharing economy the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has the “home” proved resistant to radical change? "Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow" explores different approaches to reinventing domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home.
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"Mid-Century Modern Interiors" explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession(...)
Mid-century modern interiors: the ideas that shaped interior design in America
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"Mid-Century Modern Interiors" explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period – world-renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson – and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces.
Design, Periods and Styles
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Danish design is central to what has come to be known as the mid-century modern style; its iconic pieces are still considered classics and continue to inspire designers all over the world. But if pieces like Hans J. Wegner’s Y Chair (1950) and Finn Juhl’s Chieftain Chair (1949) carry an aura of timeless elegance now, they were born of a specific historical context. In a(...)
Furniture boom: mid-century modern Danish furniture
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Danish design is central to what has come to be known as the mid-century modern style; its iconic pieces are still considered classics and continue to inspire designers all over the world. But if pieces like Hans J. Wegner’s Y Chair (1950) and Finn Juhl’s Chieftain Chair (1949) carry an aura of timeless elegance now, they were born of a specific historical context. In a new postwar welfare society, the demand for new kinds of furniture for new kinds of homes, workplaces and public institutions was booming. Danish furniture designers, cabinetmakers and industrial furniture factories were ready to deliver, with figures like Wegner, Juhl, Arne Jacobsen, Børge Mogensen, Poul Kjærholm and Verner Panton each contributing their own unique vision of what postwar modernity would look like. “Furniture Boom: Mid-Century Modern Danish Furniture 1945–1975” offers a comprehensive overview of the style that changed the world.
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