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Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980
ISBN: HB: 9783791359168, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
336 pp., 29x25 cm, 220 colour illus.
Focusing on the extensive influence of Scandinavian design in the United States, this book shows how Nordic ideas about modern design and the objects themselves had an indelible impact on American culture and material life. It also considers America'...
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£49,99
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Serious Play Design in Midcentury America
ISBN: HB: 9780300234220, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 153 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.
This spirited volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War II, Americans began accumulating more and more goods, spurring a transfo...
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£30,00
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For Kith and Kin Folk Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300179729, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2012
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 90 colour images, 12 black&white illus.
The Art Institute of Chicago is home to one of the world's finest – and largest – collections of American folk art. "For Kith and Kin" provides an introduction to that collection through more than sixty of its most outstanding objects. Selected by pr...
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£20,00
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Apostles of Beauty Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780300141139, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2009
208 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 220 colour illus.
The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design, and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. The movement's emphasis on aesthetic quality and a high level of craftsmanship, promoted as an ant...
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£35,00
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