Mid-century modern interiors : the ideas that shaped interior design in America /

Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally important designers, it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Havenhand, Lucinda Kaukas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Russel and Mary Wright : nostalgic modern and the "American way of life"
  • Richard Neutra and the therapeutic interior
  • The Eames house and a new language of vision
  • George Nelson : humanism, morality, and the Japanese aesthetic
  • The interiors of Florence Knoll : structure, luxury, and the Kunstwollen of postwar America.