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Twentieth Century Interiors Sourcebook Clive Edwards

Twentieth Century Interiors Sourcebook By Clive Edwards

Twentieth Century Interiors Sourcebook by Clive Edwards


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Summary

A book featuring stylish and Modernist avant-garde interiors by the top decorators and architects from around the world, including Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wells Coates, Finn Juhl, Oscar Niemeyer, Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata, Frank Gehry, Philippe Starck, John Pawson, Ron Arad and David Chipperfield.

Twentieth Century Interiors Sourcebook Summary

Twentieth Century Interiors Sourcebook by Clive Edwards

Twentieth Century Interiors is the ultimate sourcebook of inspiration for interior designers and an invaluable reference work for all collectors, dealers and anyone interested in the decoration of their home. Featuring stylish and cutting-edge Modernist avant-garde interiors by the top decorators and architects from around the world, including Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wells Coates, Finn Juhl, Oscar Niemeyer, Ettore Sottsass, Shiro Kuramata, Frank Gehry, Philippe Starck, John Pawson, Ron Arad and David Chipperfield. A century of intense design experimentation and a vast array of styles and influences has nowhere been more eloquently expressed than in the design and decoration of interiors, both domestic and public. Illustrated with 600 original photographs and beautifully drawn illustrations that detail the work of the greatest interior designers of the decade. The book is divided into ten chapters, each introduced by Clive Edwards with concise but informative texts outlining each topic and covering the most notable features of the era.

About Clive Edwards

Clive Edwards is a leading authority on the history of design and interiors, and is Professor of Design History at Loughborough University, UK. After a career in the retailing of furniture and interiors he took an MA in the History of Design at the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum and subsequently completed a PhD on Victorian furniture technology. Edwards is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and he is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Design History. Min Hogg, founding editor of internationally celebrated magazine The World of Interiors for two decades, is a passionate advocate of the stylish and well-designed space and is a world-renowned expert in the art of the interior.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Min Hogg; 7000-word introduction by Clive Edwards; Catalogue section: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, each introduced in 2500 words by Clive Edwards.; Index; bibliography; picture credits.

Additional information

GOR006912409
9781783130009
1783130008
Twentieth Century Interiors Sourcebook by Clive Edwards
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Welbeck Publishing Group
20131107
512
N/A
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