For courses in History of Furniture, History of Interiors, Decorative Arts, History of Architecture and Interiors. Innovatively combining coverage of early periods and later periods in one comprehensive, well-illustrated, authoritative volume. This fresh exploration of the history of furniture focuses on innovation and change--the key moments and ...
A heavily illustrated, detailed look at the exciting modern furniture of the 1950s. Created by renowned designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, and Eero Saarinen, it was produced by companies such as Herman Miller, Knoll, and Heywood-Wakefield. With over 400 color and vintage photos bearing detailed ...
Herman Miller, the company that led the office furnishings revolution, is a name synonymous with the best modern residential and contract furniture. Classics by super-designers Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi and others can still be purchased from the Herman Miller for the Home collection. Their designs, plus others, are ...
Dunbar furniture designs combine the luxuries of elegance, warmth, and contemporary style with functionalism, comfort, and stability. This reproduction of the 1956 Dunbar catalog brings together 356 pieces that reflect the fine workmanship of Edward Wormley's contemporary furniture designs. This book is a historical landmark in the best in modern ...
Highly collectible household objects designed and signed by name artists of the 1950s and 1960s are presented here including gift and tableware, glass, ceramics and enamel items. Much is written about the leading designer and marketing wizard Georges Briard, and many of his designs are pictured, along with much work by the other prominent featured ...
The known Scandinavian companies Orrefors, Kosta, iittala, Nuutajarvi Notsjo, Holmegaard, Riihimaen Lasi, and many less famous firms, have been on the creative edge of glass design for over 75 years. Here is the chronicle of their work and the first book to cover all the major and many of the minor companies, with more than 700 photos, ...
Tiffin was one of the giants of American glassmaking. This is the first book to present all color photos of hundreds of Tiffin's products. Vases, bowls, and candlesticks in a wide variety of colors and styles, from common to rare, are all in this book, with large sections devoted to Tiffin's pressed satin glass, lamps, and baskets.
As head of Herman Miller's Textile Division since 1952, Alexander Girard designed colorful and exciting fabrics and other items. His work as an interior designer and architect and his remarkable textiles for Herman Miller make Girard one of the legendary designers of the 20th century. With over 400 mostly color photographs of textile and wallpaper ...
Crackle glass has become one of the popular fields of 20th century glass collecting. This volume shows thousands of crackle glass items grouped in more than 300 color photos, with company histories, detailed captions, current price guide, bibliography, and index. It will serve as a reference for students, collectors, and dealers of this colorful ...
Here is the Italian and Scandinavian designer art glass usually referred to as "Fifties glass," plus a more popular modern glassware produced in factories, especially in the United States and Italy. This colorful and highly collectible glass is presented with detailed information on 88 designers and makers, design lists for Barovier & Toso and for ...
Beautiful fashions covered with beads. This lavishly illustrated book displays the history, techniques, preservation, and collecting of vintage and modern clothing and accessories with beads through 534 beautiful color photos, a detailed text, captions, value guide, index, and bibliography. Clothing by designers such as Fortuny and Mackie to ...
Stunning vintage and contemporary wearable art accessories are presented in 575 color photographs including close-up shots detailing the intricacy of handwork involved. An exquisite assemblage of hats, handbags, scarves, shoes, and jewelry present this compelling topic at its best. A glossary, bibliography, and value guide are included.
Many classic furniture designs of the 20th century are still in production and available to the public. This volume, with 600 color photographs and detailed captions presenting a sampling of the best furniture available, is both a history of modern design and an international shopping catalog. Indexes of 250 designers and manufacturers and a list ...
Blenko Glass Company, Inc. remains one of the few glass factories in the United States still making modern hand blown production glass. Over 675 color photographs of Blenko glass (courtesy of Blenko Visitors' Center Museum, the Huntington Museum of Art, and private collections), detailed captions, information on the designers, the 1960 catalog ...
Classics by Herman Millers super-designers Gilbert Rohde, Charles and Ray Eames, and George Nelson are shown along with more recent office furniture designs. Furniture designs are described in detail and shown in color and black-and-white photographs, all from the Herman Miller archives. An essay on the history of the office, designer biographies, ...
Explore American companies which made Art Deco glass during the Depression era: Cambridge, Consolidated, Duncan, Fostoria, Heisey, Libbey, Morgantown, Tiffin, and many others. With more than 350 color photos of popular and rare examples, informative captions with values, patent drawings, company information, a bibliography, and detailed index, ...
Herman Miller, the leader in modern twentieth-century furniture, also produced outstanding graphic design. Mid-century and later advertisements, drawings, brochures, catalogs, posters, and wall panels are shown in this visually exciting new book. A must for anyone with an interest in modern furniture, graphic arts, or twentieth century design in ...
This reprint of the twelve 1972-1983 Blenko Glass Company catalogs explores the early and middle years, an area of growing interest to collectors. Some items from the 1970s are already commanding high prices in the secondary markets both on-line and in person. The catalogs are reproduced in their entirety, and a guide to current values for the ...
A valuable resource on modern Italian glass with approximately 700 full color photos of almost 1000 examples of glass from 1900 to 2000, and an emphasis on the highly collectible mid-century period. Nearly every company and technique is represented. Company histories, designer biographies, glossary, bibliography, index, and value guide make this ...
Fabric colors, patterns, textures, and fibers reveal as much about a culture as do the furnishings and clothing that relied on the fabrics. In the 1960s, traditional plaids became popular at the same time as bold prints and geometrics, notably Op Art and "psychedelic" patterns. Nearly 600 close-up color photographs of 1960s fabrics with ...
For over fifty years Goerge Sakier sent classic and modern designs to Moundsville, West Virginia, where millions of delightful glass objects were produced. The book includes a thoroughly researched text about the man and his art (paintings, industrial designs and glass), color photos of thousands of Fostoria glass items of many patterns and Sakier ...
Special emphasis is given to Italian (Murano) and Scandinavian glass, with artist and designer biographies, company histories, an illustrated glossary, an illustrated section on signatures and labels, index, and a price guide. Ranging from common collectibles to museum quality art, these glass objects from the 1950s are all within that range of ...
Wonderful purple glassware ranging from Depression Era glass from American companies such as Tiffin, Fostoria, and Morgantown, to mid-century blown glass from Blenko; from Italian mid-century cased items to Scandinavian designer glass from Kosta, Orrefors, and Flygsfors. More than 400 color photographs (including 80+ rare catalog pages for ...
The extraordinary glass produced by Fratelli Toso. With over 400 color photographs of 19th and early 20th century murrine glass, 20th century factory production, and unique art glass; history of the company, chronology, detailed captions, bibliography, index, and value guide this book will be indispensable to the collector, dealer, and researcher.
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