Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980
ISBN: HB: 9783791359168,
Prestel Publishing,
May 2020
336 pp., 29,0x25,0 cm, 220 colour illus.
336 pp., 29,0x25,0 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 GBP
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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.
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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32.50 GBP
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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.
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 GBP
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