Mid-century modern design : a complete sourcebook

Summary: Essential reading for all collectors and design aficionados, this book is the ultimate survey of mid- century modern design and architecture now available in a sleek, compact form. A definitive survey of mid-century modern design and architecture in an accessible compact edition, this book offers a rich overview of one of the most popular, collectable, and dynamic periods of design. With rich and diverse examples of everything from furniture and lighting to ceramics and textiles to graphics and posters to interior design and architecture, this sleek compendium of mid-century style includes over 1,000 illustrations representing classic designs and little-seen rarities, as well as entries on nearly 100 major creators, such as Dieter Rams, Robin Day, Isamu Noguchi, Lucie Rie, Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, and Oscar Niemeyer. An additional illustrated dictionary features hundreds more influential mid-century designers, manufacturers, organizations, schools, and movements.

Record details

ISBN: 0500023476
ISBN: 9780500023471
Physical Description: 544 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
print
Edition: Compact paperback edition.
Publisher: London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	"With over 1,000 illustrations." First published as Mid-century modern complete in 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-538) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Collecting mid-century design / Richard Wright -- Scandinavian furniture: mid-century phenomenon / Judith Gura -- Lighting design in Italy / Alberto Bassi -- Glass design: post-1945 Transatlantic aesthetics / Joy McCall -- Mid-century ceramics / Alun Graves -- Utility to contemporary: textiles in the mid-century home / Daniel Heath -- Artist-designed textiles: 1945-1970 / Sue Prichard -- From computers to corporate identity: Cold War-era design / Jana Scholze -- Mid-century product design in Germany / Klaus Klemp -- Mid-century confluences: type, design and technology / Steven Heller -- The travel poster in the mid-century / Sophie Churcher -- Collecting the mid-century house / Matt Gibberd -- On restoring modernism: the purist and the pragmatist / Michael Boyd.