num_pages: 544
description: This volume is the single best source for anyone interested in exploring and experiencing Mid-Century Modern the international design movement that still influences homes and lifestyles from Palm Springs to Long Island and from Japan to Scandinavia. It is divided into three main Media and Masters profiles key creators including Charles and Ray Eames George Nakashima Jean Prouv and Eero Saarinen; Houses and Interiors presents 20 seminal and complete Mid-Century Modern homes and their furnishings including buildings by Philip Johnson Mies van der Rohe Alvar Aalto and Marcel Breuer; and an alphabetical dictionary of people terms and places is a comprehensive reference to the movement. The informed and accessible texts are illustrated with more than 1000 images that bring together classics and rarities mass-produced items and unusual objets dart.
language: English
title: Mid-Century Modern Complete
publisher: Abrams