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Sparke, Penny.

A century of design : design pioneers of the 20th century / Penny Sparke.

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series, [1998]

©1998

272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Focusing on the unique history of design during the 20th century, this book is as beautiful to look at as it is exciting to read. It contains more than 580 color photographs covering a wide spectrum of objects from furniture, glass, ceramics, and metalware to industrial products and household appliances.

Design -- History -- 20th century.

Designers.

Originally published: London : Mitchell Beazley, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-261) and index.

Also issued online.

The new century -- Otto Wagner -- Carlo Bugatti -- Henry van de Velde -- Elsie de Wolfe -- Hector Guimard -- Paris 1900 -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Charles Rennie Mackinstosh -- Peter Behrens -- Josef Hoffmann -- Wiener Werkstatte -- Conservative modernism -- Jean Dunand -- Eileen Gray -- Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann -- Paris 1925 -- Syrie Maugham -- Josef Frank -- Keith Murray -- Donald Deskey -- Kaare Klint -- Wilheml Kage -- Svenska Slojdforeningen -- Gordon Russell -- Alvar Aalto -- Bent wood -- Bruno Mathsson -- Enid Marx -- Progressive modernism -- Walter Gropius -- Bauhaus -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -- Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand -- Gerrit Rietveld -- El Lissitzky -- Alexander Rodchenko -- Marianne Brandt -- Marcel Breuer -- Tubular steel -- Giuseppe Terragni -- Walter Dorwin Teague -- New York World's Fair 1939 -- Raymond Loewy -- Wells Coates -- Russell Wright -- Henry Dreyfuss -- Sixten Sason -- The new modernism -- Gio Ponti -- Arne Jacobsen -- Carlo Mollina -- Charles and Ray Eames -- Moulded plywood -- George Nelson -- Eero Saarinen -- Kaj Franck -- Hans Wegner -- Ernest Race -- Tapio Wirkkala -- Milan Triennales -- Robin and Lucienne Day -- Marcello Nizzoli -- Eliot Noyes -- Hans Gugelot -- Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Ulm -- SONY -- Douglas Scott -- Dieter Rams -- Kenneth Grange -- Action and reaction -- Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni -- Marco Zanuso -- Vico Magistretti -- Plastics -- Verner Panton -- Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi -- Joe Colombo -- Mario Bellini -- Cassina -- Harley Earl -- Ettore Sottsass -- Modernism in crisis -- Gaetano Pesce -- Towards the millenium -- Richard Sapper -- Borek Sipek -- Michael Graves -- Postmodernism -- Shiro Kuramata -- Eva Jiricna -- frogdesign -- Philippe Starck -- Javier Mariscal -- Michele De Lucchi -- Antonio Citterio -- Ron Arad -- Jasper Morrison -- Information -- Bibliography -- Directory of manufacturers -- Museums and design collections -- Glossary.

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