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Books in Review
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A Modern Consciousness
Posted August 16, 2017Continue readingA look at the Smithsonian Museum of Art’s exhibition catalogue, A Modern Consciousness: D....
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Designer Maker User
Posted July 30, 2017Continue readingTwo Eames designs are featured on the cover and inside this catalogue for the newly reopened...
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Living in a Modern Way
Posted July 23, 2017Continue readingLiving in a Modern Way: California Design 1930-1965 is the well researched, and carefully...
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Innovative Furniture in America from 1800 to the Present
Posted July 10, 2017Continue readingInnovative Furniture in America is an extraordinary, well-illustrated book presenting nearly...
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Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision 1925-1950
Posted July 9, 2017Continue readingAn insightful book about Cranbrook Academy of Art, including the years in which Charles Eames...
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One Hundred Great Product Designs
Posted July 5, 2017Continue readingJay Doblin, an accomplished designer and veteran of Raymond Loewy’s office, was director of...
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100 Masterpieces of Design
Posted July 5, 2017Continue readingFor serious students of design, France’s Centre Pompidou offers this beautiful, reliable...
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Postwar Interior Design 1945-1960
Posted July 5, 2017Continue readingOne of the most well-researched and carefully illustrated books on modern design after World...
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A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965
Posted July 5, 2017Continue readingThis museum publication offers more than 140 illustrated biographical profiles of the most...
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The Design of Herman Miller
Posted January 21, 2015Continue readingScholar Ralph Caplan’s survey of the first generations of Herman Miller designers, from the...