BALS - Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century.

by Jennifer Hawkins Opis This is a comprehensive catalogue of the Scandinavian Ceramics and Glass collection at the V&A, showing comparative material from all four Scandinavian countries. The history of the many ceramics and glass factories, their artists and designers is outlined against a changing social and political background. Scandinavian design, from the 1950s to the 1970s, was a by-word for modernism. Scandinavian style was the style to which all other designers aspired during that time and the Nordic designers were awarded all the major prizes. Earlier, during the 1920s and 1930s Scandinavian designers were establishing influential design concepts, and ceramics and glass production attracted many of the key artists. Masterworks are included: from Alvar Aalto's "Savoy" vase to Tapio Wirkkala...

by Cyril Connolly and Jerome Zerbe A first edition copy from 1962 of this fascinating book which is beautifully illustrated with photographs taken by Jerome Zerbe and also with an i...

by Judith Gura. Today, a new generation of designers continues that tradition, creating pieces that are functional, comfortable, and visually appealing. This book, the first Americ...

by Tina Jorstian & Poul Erik Munk Nielson Light Years Ahead depicts Poul Henningsen's role in the evolution of light fittings. From the very outset h...

The Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture. Hardcover book with dustjacket, stated first edition, published in 1996, 160 pages, 148 color illustrations.

Volume bound in red silk velvet with a gilt rosette in the center of the front plate, chiseled with the insignia of the Sforza and Savoy families, contained in red leather slipcase i...

Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design by Georgia Museum of Art and Perri Lee Roberts. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog. 2017, Un...

The ultimate monograph on one of the world's most creative, prolific, and legendary multidisciplinary design studios nendo's extensive, idiosyncratic body of work flows seamlessly ac...