Author: Klaus-Jürgen Sembach
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors w
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
500 photos and text of the most outstanding modern furniture from around the world, including simple chairs to complex masterpieces and installations representing the work of the foremost designers of the 20th century. Including materials from wood to plastic, and steel to Lucite. Price Guide included.
Modern Furniture Designs, 1950-1980s
Author: Klaus-Jürgen Sembach
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors w
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
500 photos and text of the most outstanding modern furniture from around the world, including simple chairs to complex masterpieces and installations representing the work of the foremost designers of the 20th century. Including materials from wood to plastic, and steel to Lucite. Price Guide included.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors w
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
500 photos and text of the most outstanding modern furniture from around the world, including simple chairs to complex masterpieces and installations representing the work of the foremost designers of the 20th century. Including materials from wood to plastic, and steel to Lucite. Price Guide included.
Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980
Author: Brian Ward
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315442388
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic. Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality, the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural responses to a shifting landscape.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315442388
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic. Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality, the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural responses to a shifting landscape.
Sourcebook of Modern Furniture
Author: Jerryll Habegger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731705
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded. Over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of furniture or fixture make this book the go-to guide for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and dimensions. 1892 photographs.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731705
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to the most influential furniture and lighting designs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, updated and expanded. Over 2,000 important pieces arranged by type of furniture or fixture make this book the go-to guide for students and historians of modern furniture, as well as an essential tool for interior designers. Each entry gives the details of the design: date, model name or number, manufacturer, materials, and dimensions. 1892 photographs.
Mid-century Modern
Author: Cara Greenberg
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780517884751
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking full advantage of the ressurgence in popularity of retro-fifties design, this highly praised book lets the reader rediscover the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaciousness of biomorphic furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, unusual angles, and other design delights. Photos.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780517884751
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking full advantage of the ressurgence in popularity of retro-fifties design, this highly praised book lets the reader rediscover the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaciousness of biomorphic furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, unusual angles, and other design delights. Photos.
Scandinavian Modern Furnishings, 1930-1970
Author: Michael Ellison
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Designers &
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Furniture and household objects especially those of wood and metal featuring more than 60 designers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Scandinavian Modern style, from the 1930s through the 1970s, is shown in hundreds of photographs. Designers, manufacturers, and distributors are documented, while detailed captions with current prices, a large bibliography, and an index make this book a valuable reference and a must for all collectors, dealers, and researchers of Scandinavian design.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Designers &
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Furniture and household objects especially those of wood and metal featuring more than 60 designers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Scandinavian Modern style, from the 1930s through the 1970s, is shown in hundreds of photographs. Designers, manufacturers, and distributors are documented, while detailed captions with current prices, a large bibliography, and an index make this book a valuable reference and a must for all collectors, dealers, and researchers of Scandinavian design.
Dictionary of Furniture
Author: Charles Boyce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628738405
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
In a comprehensive listing of entries from "Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik" to "Zui Weng Yi," Boyce illuminates readers about furniture styles, construction details, terminology, furniture designers, and design movements throughout history and throughout the world. Styles covered include European-inspired classical, baroque, pop, rococo, and modernist. This extensive guide will be helpful for furniture enthusiasts, historians, and those interested in redecorating their homes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628738405
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
In a comprehensive listing of entries from "Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik" to "Zui Weng Yi," Boyce illuminates readers about furniture styles, construction details, terminology, furniture designers, and design movements throughout history and throughout the world. Styles covered include European-inspired classical, baroque, pop, rococo, and modernist. This extensive guide will be helpful for furniture enthusiasts, historians, and those interested in redecorating their homes.
Designing Modern Britain
Author: Cheryl Buckley
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893222
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Employing numerous examples of classic British design, Designing Modern Britain delves into the history of British design culture, and thereby tracks the evolution of the British national identity.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893222
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Employing numerous examples of classic British design, Designing Modern Britain delves into the history of British design culture, and thereby tracks the evolution of the British national identity.
Fine Points of Furniture
Author: Albert Sack
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: The new fine points of furniture.1993.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: The new fine points of furniture.1993.
Marcel Breuer, Furniture and Interiors
Author: Christopher Wilk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980
Author: Rebecca M. Brown
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392267
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted India’s precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism’s pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West’s dismissal of non-Western places and cultures as sources of primitivist imagery but not of modernist artworks. In Art for a Modern India, Rebecca M. Brown explores the emergence of a self-conscious Indian modernism—in painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, film, and photography—in the years between independence and 1980, by which time the Indian art scene had changed significantly and postcolonial discourse had begun to complicate mid-century ideas of nationalism. Through close analyses of specific objects of art and design, Brown describes how Indian artists engaged with questions of authenticity, iconicity, narrative, urbanization, and science and technology. She explains how the filmmaker Satyajit Ray presented the rural Indian village as a socially complex space rather than as the idealized site of “authentic India” in his acclaimed Apu Trilogy, how the painter Bhupen Khakhar reworked Indian folk idioms and borrowed iconic images from calendar prints in his paintings of urban dwellers, and how Indian architects developed a revivalist style of bold architectural gestures anchored in India’s past as they planned the Ashok Hotel and the Vigyan Bhavan Conference Center, both in New Delhi. Discussing these and other works of art and design, Brown chronicles the mid-twentieth-century trajectory of India’s modern visual culture.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822392267
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted India’s precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism’s pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West’s dismissal of non-Western places and cultures as sources of primitivist imagery but not of modernist artworks. In Art for a Modern India, Rebecca M. Brown explores the emergence of a self-conscious Indian modernism—in painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, film, and photography—in the years between independence and 1980, by which time the Indian art scene had changed significantly and postcolonial discourse had begun to complicate mid-century ideas of nationalism. Through close analyses of specific objects of art and design, Brown describes how Indian artists engaged with questions of authenticity, iconicity, narrative, urbanization, and science and technology. She explains how the filmmaker Satyajit Ray presented the rural Indian village as a socially complex space rather than as the idealized site of “authentic India” in his acclaimed Apu Trilogy, how the painter Bhupen Khakhar reworked Indian folk idioms and borrowed iconic images from calendar prints in his paintings of urban dwellers, and how Indian architects developed a revivalist style of bold architectural gestures anchored in India’s past as they planned the Ashok Hotel and the Vigyan Bhavan Conference Center, both in New Delhi. Discussing these and other works of art and design, Brown chronicles the mid-twentieth-century trajectory of India’s modern visual culture.