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Max Bill's View of Things Die gute Form: An Exhibition 1949
ISBN: HB: 9783037783726, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2014
160 pp., 29.7x21 cm, 120 illus.
The international touring exhibition "Die gute Form" was conceived by Max Bill on behalf of the Swiss Werkbund and was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Basel Mustermesse trade fair. The exhibition consisted of 80 display panels, designed by Bi...
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£29,90
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Make Your Own Luck A DIY Attitude to Graphic Design and Illustration
ISBN: PB: 9783791349107, Prestel Publishing, March 2014
224 pp., 24x19.3 cm, 250 colour illus.
One of today's most refreshing young creative gives the inside scoop on how to make it as a graphic artist. From art school student to designer for Nike, Topshop, and Google, Kate Moross has lived the life that young graphic artists dream of. But it...
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£24,99
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Modern Patterns
ISBN: HB: 9789881294302, Bookport, SendPoints, December 2013
240 pp., 26.5x18 cm, 1000 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! Often hard to describe, the term "modern" changes according to context or relationship. It is a sensibility that is recognised as being progressive or forward thinking, pushing the limits of style. Nowhere is this as easil...
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£19,95
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Museum Design Architecture / Culture / Geographical Environment
ISBN: HB: 9789881683519, Bookport, SendPoints, November 2013
320 pp., 30.6x23.7 cm, 900 colour illus.
For sale in Balkans only! Well-designed museums are more than just buildings; rather, they are cultural pieces themselves, representative of the time and place they were built and the subjects they house within. "Museum Design" showcases 46 beautif...
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£39,95
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Machine Art, 1934
ISBN: HB: 9780226507156, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 halftones
In 1934, New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products. The exhibition, titled "Machine Art", explore...
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£47,00
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Modern World American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300153019, Yale University Press, November 2011
432 pp., 31.1x23.7 cm, 329 colour images, 19 black&white illus.
The Yale University Art Gallery is home to an amazing collection of American decorative arts. "A Modern World" provides a comprehensive look at the Gallery's holdings of modernist design made in America or for the American market. The catalogue featu...
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£55,00
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
ISBN: HB: 9781851243419, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
184 pp., 23.5x15 cm, 52 colour illus.
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of thes...
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£50,00
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
ISBN: PB: 9781851243662, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
184 pp., 23.5x15 cm, 52 colour illus.
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of thes...
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£14,99
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Matthew Boulton Selling What All the World Desires
ISBN: HB: 9780300143584, Yale University Press, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Matthew Boulton was an eighteenth-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied ac...
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£40,00
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Modernism in American Silver 20th-century Design
ISBN: HB: 9780300109276, Yale University Press, September 2005
384 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Muse...
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£60,00
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