Title:
Essential modernism : design between the world wars / Dominic Bradbury.
Author:
Bradbury, Dominic, author.
Publication Information:
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2018.
©2018
Call Number:
NK1390 .B725 2018
Abstract:
"A beautiful and expansive look at Modernist design, representing iconic works including architecture, interiors, graphic design, and product design. This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and '30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s ... This lively and accessible volume includes sections on furniture, lighting, ceramics and glass, industrial and product design, graphic design and posters, houses and interiors, as well as profiles of more than seventy influential creators ... Complete with essays by accomplished scholars and subject specialists, over 600 illustrations, and an illustrated A to Z of designers, architects, and manufacturers" -- Publisher.
ISBN:
9780300238341
Physical Description:
479 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Contents:
Advent of modernity: modernist French furniture and the new materiality / Bauhaus by design: the ideas and the influence of the Bauhaus masters / Erik Gunnar Asplund -- Marcel Breurer -- Donald Deskey -- Jean-Michel Frank -- Eileen Gray -- René Herbst -- Kaare Klint -- Mogens Koch -- Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret & Charlotte Perriand -- Bruno Mathsson -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich -- Jean Prouvé -- Gerrit Rietveld -- Gilbert Rohde -- Kem Weber -- The age of enlightenment: the evolution of lighting from Art Deco to Modernism / Marianne Brandt -- George Carwardine -- Christian Dell -- Poul Henningsen -- Walter von Nessen -- Gio Ponti & Pietro Chiesa -- The new aesthetic: the evolution of modernist ceramics in the inter-war years / Bernard Leach & Michael Cardew -- Otto Lindig & Theodor Bogler -- Grete Marks -- Orrefors -- Paolo Venini & Carlo Scarpa -- Marguerite Wildenhain -- Russel Wright -- 'Flash-and-gleam beauty': the streamlined decade in America / Peter Behrens -- Harold van Doren -- Henry Dreyfuss -- Richard Buckminster Fuller -- Norman Bel Geddes -- Raymond Loewy -- Ferdinand Porsche -- Walter Dorwin Teague -- Wilhelm Wagenfeld -- The birth of modern type: typographical revolution and the advent of modernist graphic design / Josef Albers -- Herbert Bayer -- A. M. Cassandre -- Theo van Doesburg -- László Moholy-Nagy -- Alexander Rodchenko -- Jan Tschichold -- Welcome to the machine: the power of the automobile and new technology in shaping the modern home / The Bauhaus in America: the modernist émigrés and their influence on American architecture, interiors and design, 1920-1940 / Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland -- Brinkman & Van der Vlugt: Sonneveld House, Rotterdam, Netherlands -- Pierre Chareau: Maison de Verre, Paris, France -- Serge Chermayeff: Bentley Wood, East Sussex, UK -- Ernő Goldfinger: Willow Road, London, UK -- Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici: E-1027, Roquebrune, France -- Walter Gropius: Gropius House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA -- Arne Jacobsen: Rothenborg House, Klampenborg, Denmark -- Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye, Poissy, France -- Robert Mallet-Stevens: Villa Noailles, Hyères, France -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Villa Tugendhat, Brno, Czech Republic -- Richard Neutra: Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, USA -- Auguste Perre: Studio-residence for Chana Orloff, Paris, France -- Gerrit Rietveld: Rietveld Schröder House, Utrecht, Netherlands -- Eliel Saarinen: Saarinen House, Cranbrook, Michigan, USA -- Hans Scharound, Haus Schminke, Löbau, Germany -- Rudolph Schindler: Schindler House, Los Angeles, USA -- Guiseppe Terragni: Villa Bianca, Seveso, Italy -- Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, USA.
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