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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(...)
décembre 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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décembre 2006, Paris
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The New Interior: Viennese Domestic Design and the Beginnings of the Wiener Wohnkultur, 1907-1914
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In ''The New Interior'', architectural historian Christopher Long examines how, over the course of the seven years preceding World War I, three leading Viennese modernists—Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Oskar Strnad—redefined the idea of the modern interior. While their building designs shaped Vienna’s urban landscape and exemplified the famous Secession movement, these(...)
The New Interior: Viennese Domestic Design and the Beginnings of the Wiener Wohnkultur, 1907-1914
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In ''The New Interior'', architectural historian Christopher Long examines how, over the course of the seven years preceding World War I, three leading Viennese modernists—Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Oskar Strnad—redefined the idea of the modern interior. While their building designs shaped Vienna’s urban landscape and exemplified the famous Secession movement, these three architects also applied their eclectic principles to domestic interiors, or Wohnkultur (meaning "living" or "dwelling culture"). This book follows the progress of their debates and works, and how each designer sought to frame his own distinctive vision of living. The result was a split between the imperatives of style, function and livability that is still in play today.
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At home in the 17th century
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What household belongings did people own in the 17th century? ''At Home in the 17th Century'' opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time—from everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of(...)
At home in the 17th century
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What household belongings did people own in the 17th century? ''At Home in the 17th Century'' opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time—from everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of familiar idealized genre paintings, this book focuses on real life. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, this book, designed by Irma Boom, includes commentary from several of the museum's curators delving into the world behind the paintings: the residents and the objects that surrounded them. What people left behind—furniture, utensils and even pottery fragments found in cesspools—gives a picture of how they furnished and used their homes. The result is an intimate look behind the front door of the 17th century—into a world that is sometimes surprisingly recognizable, but often radically different as well.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement, founded in the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, produced some of the world’s most enduring architectural masterpieces. Author and architect David Cole presents the 100 great Arts and Crafts houses, each individually described and analysed with insightful detail and floor plans, and illustrated with stunning photography.(...)
Great houses of the arts and crafts movement: One hundred masterworks, 1860-1914
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The Arts and Crafts Movement, founded in the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, produced some of the world’s most enduring architectural masterpieces. Author and architect David Cole presents the 100 great Arts and Crafts houses, each individually described and analysed with insightful detail and floor plans, and illustrated with stunning photography. Beginning with Morris’s own iconic Red House, the book traces the fifty-year span of the movement, with a short chapter dedicated to each of these extraordinary houses: from the works of the pioneer Arts and Crafts architects, to the great reformer architects of the next generation, to the craftsman architects who took their lives and their work to the countryside, to the movement’s Scottish architects, and finally to the houses of the Garden Cities and suburbs built through the movement’s last decade before the First World War.
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Les auteurs dressent le portrait d'une période artistique riche, à la fois héritière d'une tradition de luxe, mais aussi précurseur du design contemporain. Ils nous font découvrir les défis, les innovations et les modes de cette époque. Sous l'égide de commanditaires comme Jean Zay, Michelle et Vincent Auriol, ils nous permettent d'accéder à une série de lieux(...)
Le chic! Arts décoratifs et mobilier français de 1930 à 1960
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Les auteurs dressent le portrait d'une période artistique riche, à la fois héritière d'une tradition de luxe, mais aussi précurseur du design contemporain. Ils nous font découvrir les défis, les innovations et les modes de cette époque. Sous l'égide de commanditaires comme Jean Zay, Michelle et Vincent Auriol, ils nous permettent d'accéder à une série de lieux incontournables des ambassades aux palais présidentiels. De 1930 à la fin des années 1950, la majeure partie des décorateurs qui feront l’histoire de ces trois décennies du XXe siècle est appelée à collaborer avec le Mobilier national : André Arbus, Jules Leleu, Jean Pascaud, Étienne-Henri Martin, Marc du Plantier, Gilbert Poillerat ou Raphaël Raffel. La figure du décorateur joue alors un rôle capital. Véritable ensemblier, il conçoit la décoration comme un tout harmonieux et orchestre les métiers d’arts au service d’un projet global. L’art du raffinement s’appuie alors tant sur la préciosité des matériaux (parchemin, bronze doré, cristal, laque, etc.) que sur la recherche de la ligne, jusqu’à l’épure du design. Le Mobilier national présente cette importante rétrospective en puisant dans sa collection exceptionnelle et présente des pièces uniques, d'une qualité et d'une diversité remarquables.
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, ''Woven histories'' offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts(...)
Woven histories: Textiles and modern abstraction
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, ''Woven histories'' offers a fresh and authoritative look at textiles—particularly weaving—as a major force in the evolution of abstraction. This richly illustrated volume features more than fifty creators whose work crosses divisions and hierarchies formerly segregating the fine arts from the applied arts and handicrafts. ''Woven histories'' begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue to shape this discourse.
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This stunning survey has become the standard work on the furniture of the entire period: every piece included is able to stand for all time as a classic work of design. Illustrated with over 140 colour reproductions, and detailed descriptions, it is completed by a comprehensive reference section, detailed designer biographies, a bibliography, advice on collecting and a(...)
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octobre 2001, London
Modern furniture classics postwar to post-modernism
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This stunning survey has become the standard work on the furniture of the entire period: every piece included is able to stand for all time as a classic work of design. Illustrated with over 140 colour reproductions, and detailed descriptions, it is completed by a comprehensive reference section, detailed designer biographies, a bibliography, advice on collecting and a list of retail outlets and museums.
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octobre 2001, London
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Suiza constructiva
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"Suiza Constructiva" met en lumière l’une des manifestations les plus importantes de la création artistique en Suisse au cours du siècle dernier, l’art concret, dont la grande époque dura de 1920 à 1960. Bien qu’enraciné dans les avant-gardes européennes, l’art concret, qui tend au rationalisme dans la structure, à la rigueur formelle et à la perfection technique, devint(...)
Suiza constructiva
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"Suiza Constructiva" met en lumière l’une des manifestations les plus importantes de la création artistique en Suisse au cours du siècle dernier, l’art concret, dont la grande époque dura de 1920 à 1960. Bien qu’enraciné dans les avant-gardes européennes, l’art concret, qui tend au rationalisme dans la structure, à la rigueur formelle et à la perfection technique, devint avec les années l’incarnation même de l’art et de l’esthétique industrielle suisses. Bien plus qu’un style, il représente un mouvement intellectuel, une quête de formules universelles et de structures éthiquement fondées allant bien au delà des limites des arts plastiques. "Suiza Constructiva" présente la contribution suisse à l’art du 20ème siècle comme interaction de l’art et des domaines appliqués de l’esthétique, plaçant la peinture et la sculpture aux côtés de l’architecture, de la conception graphique, du design et de la photographie, pour révéler un chapitre unique en son genre de l’histoire de la culture sous un jour nouveau.
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This book celebrates streamlining as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Donald Deskey, Henri Dreyfuss, Russel Wright, and Norman Bel Geddes, and introduces other industrial designers, also highlighting the resurgence of streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present. Patent drawings and period photographs demonstrate the usage of(...)
American streamlined design : the world of tomorrow
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This book celebrates streamlining as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Donald Deskey, Henri Dreyfuss, Russel Wright, and Norman Bel Geddes, and introduces other industrial designers, also highlighting the resurgence of streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present. Patent drawings and period photographs demonstrate the usage of these dynamically styled objects. Two hundred objects drawn from the Eric Brill Collection (recently donated to the American Friends of Canada) and supplemented by the Stewart Collection of 20th Century Design were photographed for this book. A full bibliography, biographies of the designers, and index complete the study.
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