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The Hot House Andrea Branzi, The MIT Press, 1984. cloth with dust cover, a crtical and important reference featuring 156 pages with over 400 color and black & white photos reviewing avant garde design after 1950s with its precendents for post-modernism in the early 1980s. Excellent condition. retromodern price, $55. |
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Introduction to the Decorative Arts: 1890 to the Present Amanda O'Neill, Shooting Star Press, New York, 1990. cloth with dust cover, 143 pages fully illustrated chronicling design by salient movements within the 20th century; nice overview; excellent condition. retromodern price, $28. |
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What Is Modern Interior
Design?
Edgar Kaufmann, Jr, part
of the introductory series to the moder arts published by Museum of Modern
Art, 1953.
paper, 32 pages featuring
photos of contemporary interiors in the 20th century which employ modern
decorative arts; very good condition
retromodern price, $40.  |
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Introduction to
Twentieth Century Design
Arthur Drexler and Grtea
Daniel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959.
paper, 96 pages featuring
132 black and white photos of significant design objects in MOMA's collection
as ogf 1959. Some well-known objects, some infitiely obscurer objects identified;
good condition with some sun fading to cover.
retromodern price, $50. |
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Portable Furniture Vicki Brooks, Main Street Press, New Jersey, 1986. cloth with dust cover featuring 191 pages of photos of modular and space saving home furnishings -- includes index and list of manufacturers and addresses in Europe and the States. Excellent condition. retromodern price, $24. |
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Art Nouveau Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable Klaus-Jurgen Sembach, Taschen, Cologne, 1996. cloth with slip case featuring 240 oversized pages lavishly illustrated by hundreds of color and black & white photos -- an important reference tool for Art Nouveau; coffee table book size in excellent condition. retromodern price, $55. |
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The Plastics Age From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond Penny Sparke, The Overlook Press, New York, 1993. paper, 160 pages featuring numerous black & white and color photos; a thoughtful and comprehensive look at plastics which acompanied the exhibition of the same name at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Excellent condition. retromodern price, $45. |
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International Design Yearbook, Volume 4 edited by Arata Isozaki, Abbeville Press, New York, 1988; cloth, excellent condition with dust cover; 240 pages illustrating the best of international design for the year; 448 illustrations of which 418 are in full color; a spectacular volume in this critically acclaimed ongoing series. retromodern price, $75. |
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The International Design
Yearbook, Vol. 1
Robert Stern editor, Abbeville
Press, New York, 1986.
cloth with dust cover, 239 pages
featuring over 500 illustrations of the best and most innovative furniture,
lighting, textile, glass, and ceramic design in the mid 1980s; excellent
condition.
retromodern
price, $75.
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