There is a glossary, short biographies of designers and architects, separate directories to British and American suppliers of historic and antique decorative elements, and a subject index. The design encyclopedia . Covers only Europe, Australia, Japan, and the Americas. It does not include automotive, or fashion designers, photographers, or architects. Extremely brief entries on people, publications, terminology, and schools important to all design fields.
All text is in French.
Includes many color photographs, some full page. Dictionary of 20th-century design . This book attempts to collect into one volume, of manageable size, a cross section of information about the emergence of design as an important expression of modern realities. Design is taken to mean product, industrial, graphic, interior, exhibition, typographic, and and advertising design. Includes entries on people, styles, movements, design firms, museums, design schools, and technical terms particular to design.