Modern Americana
Studio Furniture From High Craft To High Glam

Rizzoli, New York 2012

Second edition ( the first one was published, also by Rizzoli, in 2008 ) .

Hardcover, black paper covered boards with title printed in white on front cover and spine, under illustrated dust jacket.
272 pages illustrated throughout with color and black & white photographs and drawings.

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In contrast to the mass-produced mid-century furniture by Knoll and Herman Miller, American studio designs of the same period focused on novel forms and exquisite craftmanship.
Modern Americana is the first full survey of the design of this prolific but forgotten period.

Works by : Vladimir Kagan, George Nakashima, Edward Wormley, Paul Evans & Philip Lloyd Powell, Sam Maloof, Wendell Castle, Billy Haines, Karl Springer, Samuel Marx, Paul Laszlo…

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23,8 X 29,5 cm

Condition : fvery good

60 €

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