Modernism in design
By: edited by Paul Greenhalgh.
Contributors: Greenhalgh, Paul.
Series: Critical views
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Design -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: The legacy of the nineteenth century / Clive Wainwright; title: The myth of function / Tim Benton; title: The struggles within French furniture, 1900-1930 / Paul Greenhalgh; title: The cultural politics of the German modernist interior / Martin Gaughan; title: Building utopia : pioneer modernism on the American West coast / Wendy Kaplan; title: 'Design in everyday things' : promoting modernism in Britain, 1912-1944 / Julian Holder; title: Henri Van de Velde and the struggle of Belgian modernism between the wars / Mimi Wilms; title: Swedish grace ... or the acceptable face of modernism? / Gillian Naylor; title: 'A home for everybody?' : design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-1972 / Penny Sparke; title: Radical modernism in contemporary Spanish design / Guy Julier.