Mid-century modern
Subtitle: Australian furniture design
By: Kirsty Grant with Peter Atkins, Neil Clerehan, Mary Featherston, Conrad Hamann, Dean Keep, Suzanna Shaw and Denise Whitehouse
Contributors: National Gallery of Victoria; National Gallery of Victoria. Ian Potter Centre
Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780724103874
Subjects: Furniture designers; Furniture design; Exhibitions; Furniture; History
Work titles: Mid-century modern (National Gallery of Victoria)
Description: Annotation.
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Ian Potter Centre, NVG Australia at Federation Square, 30 May to 19 October 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Strange shapes and all: modern furniture in Australia 1945-1975 / Kristy Grant; title: The architect / Neil Clerehan; title: Design for life: Grant and Mary Featherston / Denise Whitehouse; title: The collector / Dean Keep; title: Influence and parallels: the early industrial design of Clement Meadmore / Peter Atkins; title: Michael Hirst: the variations / Peter Atkins; title: The conservator / Suzanna Shaw; title: Life on the sunlit plain: architecture in the age of modernist triumph 1945-1970 / Conrad Hamann; title: The designer / Mary Featherston.