Retro : a guide to the mid-20th century design revival / Adrian Franklin.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2013, ©2011Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857858504; 0857858505Subject(s): Design -- History -- 20th century -- Themes, motives | Retro (Style) | Design -- Themes, motives | Retro (Style) | Design | Glas | Möbel | Keramik | Eklektizismus | Design -- History -- Themes, motives. -- 20th century | Retro (Style) | 1900-1999Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 745.209045 LOC classification: NK1390 | .F73 2013Other classification: J535 Summary: Retro may be cool, but why are we now in the middle of a love affair with objects and designs from the mid-twentieth century? What unique qualities do they share that make them so special now? Using one of the most spectacular displays of retro objects ever assembled, and covering all the bases - furniture, fashion, ceramics, technology, metal, graphics, plastic and glass - twentieth-century expert Adrian Franklin provides the answers. Spanning the period from the 1950s to the 1980s and beyond, and with international coverage, the book identifies the designers, manufacturers, brands, innovations, technologies and materials that transformed the world during the period of mid-century modern and still cast their magic spell. Authoritative, entertaining and beautiful, Retro is itself an object to be treasured.
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"A Bloomsbury book"--Colophon.
The letter "e" in the first word of the title appears flipped from left to right on the t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Retro may be cool, but why are we now in the middle of a love affair with objects and designs from the mid-twentieth century? What unique qualities do they share that make them so special now? Using one of the most spectacular displays of retro objects ever assembled, and covering all the bases - furniture, fashion, ceramics, technology, metal, graphics, plastic and glass - twentieth-century expert Adrian Franklin provides the answers. Spanning the period from the 1950s to the 1980s and beyond, and with international coverage, the book identifies the designers, manufacturers, brands, innovations, technologies and materials that transformed the world during the period of mid-century modern and still cast their magic spell. Authoritative, entertaining and beautiful, Retro is itself an object to be treasured.
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