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Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam

Door Julie Lovine e.a.

Categorie	Meubelen & Interieur
Boeknummer	#361020-AC27
Titel	Modern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam
Auteur	Lovine, Julie & Todd Merrill
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Rizzoli International Publications
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0847830535
ISBN13	9780847830534
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	In the current world of twentieth-century design collecting, the trend has shifted away from accessible, mass-manufactured modernist furniture and toward designs that were custom-made or produced in very limited editions, with emphasis on American studio design of the 1940s to the 1990s. In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftsmanship. Ranging from the organic shapes of George Nakashima and Vladimir Kagan to metalworks by Paul Evans, these limited production designs were highly sought after in their days by original tastemakers and movie stars. In the last decade, a revival for these rare designs began with connoisseurs such as Tom Ford. Modern Americana is the f... (Lees verder)irst full survey of the designs of this prolific but forgotten period, bringing to life again the works of Samuel Marx, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Karl Springer, James Mont, and many others -- including J. B. Blunk, Michael Coffey, Wharton Esherick, Arthur Espenet Carpenter, Sam Maloof, Jack Rogers Hopkins, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Silas Seandel, Charles Hollis Jones, Philip & Kevin LaVerne, Tommi Parzinger, Harvey Probber, Edward Wormley, John Dickinson, Arthur Elrod, and Paul Laszlo.
Pagina's	272
Conditie	Goed — Still shrinkwrapped.
Prijs	€ 50,00

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