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Object Lessons The Bauhaus and Harvard
ISBN: HB: 9780300254167, Yale University Press, January 2021
300 pp., 26x18.4 cm, 150 illus.
Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought t...
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£35,00
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David King Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
ISBN: HB: 9780300250107, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 illus.
This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943-2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in the 1...
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£30,00
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs
ISBN: HB: 9780906506233, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 33.7x23.5 cm, 900 illus.
Roger Billcliffe's groundbreaking catalogue raisonne of the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh first appeared over four decades ago. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated to take account of the host of discoveries and develo...
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£160,00
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Detroit Style Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020
ISBN: HB: 9780300247084, Yale University Press, June 2020
150 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Detroit, nicknamed Motor City, has always been a leader in car design. As the city became the center of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, its studios became incubators for new ideas and new styles. This volume highlights the...
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speechless different by design
ISBN: HB: 9780300247039, Yale University Press, April 2020
216 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This catalogue pioneers a new approach to the art museum exhibition, using the power of design to explore how we experience the world through our varied senses. Six international design teams have collaborated with experts in neuroscience and cogniti...
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£40,00
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Tudor Textiles
ISBN: HB: 9780300244120, Yale University Press, April 2020
208 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 132 colour illus.
At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were more highly esteemed than paintings and other forms of decorative art. Indeed, in 16th-century Europe, fine textiles were so cost...
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Radical Italian Design 1965-1985 (The Dennis Freedman Collection)
ISBN: HB: 9780300247497, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 117 colour illus.
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...
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Henry van de Velde Designing Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300226669, Yale University Press, July 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 52 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.
The painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthet...
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N. C. Wyeth New Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780300243680, Yale University Press, June 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.8 cm, 158 colour illus.
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was widely renowned for his iconic images of characters such as King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe that were reproduced as illustrations for books and magazines. The patriarch of the Wyeth family, father of Andrew Wy...
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Jan Tschichold and the New Typography Graphic Design Between the World Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780300243956, Yale University Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus th...
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