20th Century Design : the definitive illustrated sourcebook / Judith Miller.
By: Miller, Judith.
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TextPublisher: London : New York, N.Y. : Miller's ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Octopus Books, 2009Description: 304 p. : col. ill., ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9781845335168 :; 1845335163 :.Other title: Twentieth century design | Miller's 20th century design | Miller's twentieth century design.Subject(s): Design -- History -- 20th century | Designers -- History -- 20th century | Art objects -- Design -- 20th century | Decoration and ornament -- History -- 20th century | Furniture design -- History -- 20th century | Ceramics -- Design -- 20th century | Glassware -- Design -- 20th century | Metal-work -- Design -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 745.409/04 Includes index.
Introduction -- Birth Of Modernism -- Introduction -- Arts and crafts movement -- Vienna secession and Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Furniture gallery -- Wienerwerstatte -- Darmstadt and the Deutscher Werkbund -- Ceramics gallery -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Metalware gallery -- Craft Movement -- Introduction -- Mission furniture -- British craft tradition -- George Nakashima -- Paul Evans -- Early American craft ceramics -- George Ohr -- British studio ceramics -- Luice Rie -- Later American studio ceramics -- Ceramics gallery -- Early studio glass -- Later studio glass -- Modern Movement -- Introduction -- Gerrit Rietvelt -- Bauhaus -- Walter Gropius -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Marcel Breuer -- Le Corbusier -- Eileen Gray -- Alvar Aalto -- Furniture gallery -- Metal gallery -- Posters -- Textiles and carpets -- Art Deco -- Introduction -- 1925 Paris Exhibition -- French furniture -- Jacques-Emile Rohlmann -- French furniture in the modern style -- American furniture -- Furniture gallery -- Ceramics: stylized nature -- Ceramics: exoticism -- Ceramics: geometric -- Ceramics: figurines -- Ceramics gallery -- Cut and etched glass -- Surface decorated glass -- Rene Lalique -- Moulded and pressed glass -- Glass gallery -- Metal tablewares -- Metal decorative wares -- Metalware gallery -- Sculptural masterpieces -- Figurative sculpture -- Sculpture gallery -- Lighting -- Lighting gallery -- Travel and communication -- French posters -- International poster style -- Textiles -- New materials --
Mid Century Modernism -- Introduction -- Scandinavian aesthetic -- American and Italian interpretation -- Charles and Ray Eames -- New ways with wood and metal -- New upholstery -- Brazilian furniture -- Plastic and fiberglass -- Furniture gallery -- Piero Fornasetti -- Ceramics: design for mass manufacture -- Art ceramics -- Scandinavian ceramics -- Ceramics gallery -- Murano glass -- Paolo Venini -- Scandinavian glass -- Czech glass -- British and American glass -- Glass gallery -- Metalware -- Metalware gallery -- Abstract sculpture -- Technology -- Sculptural lighting -- Linear lighting -- Lighting gallery -- Posters -- Textiles -- Postmodernism To Contemporary -- Introduction -- Studio Alchimia -- Ettore Sotsass -- Memphis -- Michael Graves -- Wendell Castle -- Philippe Starck -- Wire furniture gallery -- Metal furniture gallery -- Wood furniture gallery -- Synthetics furniture gallery -- Other materials furniture gallery -- Gaetano Pesce -- Marc Newson -- Ron Arad -- Campana Brothers -- Julia Kranz -- Peter Voulkos -- Sculptural ceramics gallery -- David Gilhooly -- Ceramics gallery -- Mass produced ceramics gallery -- Murano glass -- Dale Chihuly -- Central European glass -- Glass gallery -- Metalware gallery -- Sculpture -- Tom Dixon -- Alessi -- Technology -- Lighting gallery -- Albert Paley -- Posters -- Textiles -- Glossary of marks -- Museums -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Judith Miller introduces a extensive sourcebook, written specifically for the 20th century collector.