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Interior design of the 20th century / Anne Massey.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World of artPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1990Description: 216 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0500202478
  • 9780500202470
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 729.0904 20
LOC classification:
  • NK1980 .M3 1990
Contents:
Reforming Victorian taste -- Search for a new style -- Modern movement -- Art Deco and the Moderne -- Emergence of interior decoration as a profession -- Post-war modernism -- Consumer culture -- Post-modern era.
Summary: The Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movements, Art Nouveau, the Modern Movement, its rivals Art Deco and the Moderne, American Streamlining and Modern, Pop, Op, Surrealism, HI-Tech, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism, and many other styles of interior design are charted in this concise but wide-ranging survey. From the Modern movement inspired by leading architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, to groups and schools such as the Bauhaus, to glamorous Art Deco decorators such as Emile-Jacque Ruhlmann, to the virtually anonymous ethnic styles, Anne Massey signposts the changes of direction in interior design.Subject: From the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day - from Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement and Art Deco to Hi-Tech and green design - every style of interior design is charted in this wide-ranging and indispensable survey. Design is charted in this wide-ranging and indispensable survey. Design in the twentieth century saw many changes in direction, including the emergence of professional "interior decoration" and its evolution into interior design. Interiors, domestic and other, are explored and placed within their social, political, economic and cultural context. This revised, expanded and updated edition illustrates recent examples and is brought up to date with discussions of green design and the effect of new technology on the home and the work place. --Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reforming Victorian taste -- Search for a new style -- Modern movement -- Art Deco and the Moderne -- Emergence of interior decoration as a profession -- Post-war modernism -- Consumer culture -- Post-modern era.

The Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic Movements, Art Nouveau, the Modern Movement, its rivals Art Deco and the Moderne, American Streamlining and Modern, Pop, Op, Surrealism, HI-Tech, Post-Modernism, Deconstructivism, and many other styles of interior design are charted in this concise but wide-ranging survey. From the Modern movement inspired by leading architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, to groups and schools such as the Bauhaus, to glamorous Art Deco decorators such as Emile-Jacque Ruhlmann, to the virtually anonymous ethnic styles, Anne Massey signposts the changes of direction in interior design.

From the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day - from Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement and Art Deco to Hi-Tech and green design - every style of interior design is charted in this wide-ranging and indispensable survey. Design is charted in this wide-ranging and indispensable survey. Design in the twentieth century saw many changes in direction, including the emergence of professional "interior decoration" and its evolution into interior design. Interiors, domestic and other, are explored and placed within their social, political, economic and cultural context. This revised, expanded and updated edition illustrates recent examples and is brought up to date with discussions of green design and the effect of new technology on the home and the work place. --Back cover.

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