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Book Synopsis Russel Wright, American Designer by : William John Hennessey
Download or read book Russel Wright, American Designer written by William John Hennessey and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of his work establishes Wright as the designer who was most responsible for the shift in taste that made domestic products with a "modern look" popular in the late 1930s.
Book Synopsis Russel Wright; American Designer by : William J. Hennessey
Download or read book Russel Wright; American Designer written by William J. Hennessey and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russel Wright, Good Design is for Everyone by : Russel Wright
Download or read book Russel Wright, Good Design is for Everyone written by Russel Wright and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russel and Mary Wright by : Jennifer Golub
Download or read book Russel and Mary Wright written by Jennifer Golub and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga, explores the home and woodland paths imagined by Russel and Mary Wright in Hudson Valley New York; a modernist haven that allows for ambiguity, and the natural world where the spirit could flourish. In the era of TV dinners and suburban conformity, Russel and Mary Wright were individualists. The Wrights rejected rigid modernism that did not allow for ambiguity, let alone the natural world. Here we find multiple binary factors: New York City and the sublime Hudson Valley landscape, commercial mass production and handmade nuance, Japanese aesthetics and American ideals, queer attraction, and family yearnings. Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga traces a journey, beyond an exploration of space, but a way of life, the story of the creation of a haven where the spirit could flourish. Our understanding of the Wrights's architectural, design, and environmental achievements, synthesizes four archives, including the estate of the Wright family, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Russel Wright Design Center at Manitoga, and the Russel Wright Papers at Syracuse University. With a clarion voice, we examine this partnership, revealing new understandings and cultural relevance.
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Download or read book Russel Wright, American Designer written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Russel Wright, Good Design is for Everyone by : Russel Wright
Download or read book Russel Wright, Good Design is for Everyone written by Russel Wright and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Streamlined Design by : David A. Hanks
Download or read book American Streamlined Design written by David A. Hanks and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The twentieth century loved machines and the speed they made possible. Speeding cars, trains, and planes promised to conquer space and time; their aerodynamic styling and metal skins embodied a new and modern beauty, one that especially enchanted American designers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Streamlining became the popular American style for all sorts of objects: from toy scooters to typewriters, from power tools to teakettles." "This book celebrates this beauty as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Kem Weber, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, as well as in works by many lesser-known industrial designers whose products are presented here for the first time. The book also demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present." "This volume is illustrated with patent drawings and period photographs showing how these dynamically styled objects were used. The one hundred eighty objects presented here, drawn from the Eric Brill Collection (recently donated to the American Friends of Canada) and supplemented by pieces from the Stewart Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, were photographed for this book. A full bibliography, biographies of the designers, and index complete the study."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Making America Modern by : Marilyn F. Friedman
Download or read book Making America Modern written by Marilyn F. Friedman and published by Bauer and Dean Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable resource for design professionals and historians, this book chronicles the evolution of modern interior design in the United States throughout the 1930s. With more than 200 images and detailed descriptions, design historian Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than eighty interiors by forty-five designers, including Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Percival Goodman, Frederick Kiesler, William Lescaze, William Muschenheim Tommi Parzinger, Gilbert Rohde, Eugene Schoen, Kem Weber, set designers Cedric Gibbons and Joseph Urban, and industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Russel Wright. The book also highlights the work of women modernists who are practically unknown today, including Virginia Conner, Freda Diamond, Eleanor Le Maire, and Madame Majeska. Interiors cover the economic spectrum, from those created for wealthy patrons who embraced the modernist aesthetic, including Walter Annenberg, George Vanderbilt III, William Paley, and Abby Rockefeller Milton, to those designed with affordability in mind, including private commissions, as well as furniture and model rooms for manufacturers, design associations, and museum exhibitions. The book also profiles in detail entire model homes that highlighted new concepts in design and construction, such as Norman Bel Geddes¿ House of Tomorrow for Ladies¿ Home Journal, Macy¿s ¿Forward House,¿ Frederick Kiesler¿s ¿Space House¿ for the Modernage showroom, Eleanor Le Maire¿s ¿House of Planes¿ for Abraham & Straus, and the model houses at the 1933 and 1939 world¿s fairs held in Chicago and New York, respectively. The trajectory of American modern design during the 1930s was not linear. In rejecting the revivalism that had defined American design during the nineteenth century, the designers covered in this book forged something new-an American movement defined by simplicity, practicality, and comfort that embraced experimentation and variation in materials and style. An important survey of the early development of modern interiors in America, year by year.
Book Synopsis American Design Ethic by : Arthur J. Pulos
Download or read book American Design Ethic written by Arthur J. Pulos and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the development of the design of manufactured goods and examines the interaction between the American culture and industrial design
Book Synopsis Mid-Century Modern Interiors by : Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand
Download or read book Mid-Century Modern Interiors written by Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-Century Modern Interiors explores the history of interior design during arguably its most iconic and influential period. The 1930s to the 1960s in the United States was a key moment for interior design. It not only saw the emergence of some of interior design's most globally-important designers, it also saw the field of interior design emerge at last as a profession in its own right. Through a series of detailed case studies this book introduces the key practitioners of the period – world-renowned designers including Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Neutra, and George Nelson – and examines how they developed new approaches by applying systematic and rational principles to the creation of interior spaces. It takes us into the mind of the designer to show how they each used interior design to express their varied theoretical interests, and reveals how the principles they developed have become embodied in the way interior design is practiced today. This focus on unearthing the underlying ideas and concepts behind their designs rather than on the finished results creates a richer, more conceptual understanding of this pivotal period in modernist design history. With an extended introduction setting the case studies within the broader context of twentieth-century design and architectural history, this book provides both an introduction and an in-depth analysis for students and scholars of interior design, architecture and design history.
Book Synopsis Russel Wright's Menu Cookbook by : Ann Wright
Download or read book Russel Wright's Menu Cookbook written by Ann Wright and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 15 menus with 65 recipes, this cookbook by a pioneer on modern design offers tips on getting organized, ways to use modern "convenience" foods, how to set a stylish table, and how to make entertaining a pleasure rather than an ordeal. 40 color photos. Line illustrations throughout.
Book Synopsis Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body by : Kristina Wilson
Download or read book Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body written by Kristina Wilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor in postwar America In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse audiences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life and Ebony, furniture, art, and more, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced—and were influenced by—Modern design and shaped its presentation to consumers. Taking us to the booming suburban landscape of postwar America, Kristina Wilson demonstrates that the ideals defined by popular Modernist furnishings were far from neutral or race-blind. Advertisers offered this aesthetic to White audiences as a solution for keeping dirt and outsiders at bay, an approach that reinforced middle-class White privilege. By contrast, media arenas such as Ebony magazine presented African American readers with an image of Modernism as a style of comfort, security, and social confidence. Wilson shows how etiquette and home decorating manuals served to control women by associating them with the domestic sphere, and she considers how furniture by George Nelson and Charles and Ray Eames, as well as smaller-scale decorative accessories, empowered some users, even while constraining others. A striking counter-narrative to conventional histories of design, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body unveils fresh perspectives on one of the most distinctive movements in American visual culture.
Book Synopsis Norman Bel Geddes Designs America by : Donald Albrecht
Download or read book Norman Bel Geddes Designs America written by Donald Albrecht and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the career of one of the twentieth century's foremost theatrical and industrial designers. This book outlines the career of this complex and influential man through approximately fifty projects, bringing together never before exhibited drawings, models, photographs and films. Norman Bel Geddes was an innovative stage designer, director, producer, architect, industrial designer, futurist and urban planner. His professional credo was to simplify, to unify, to use form to communicate and, at times, shape function and to question the status quo. His research based approach to problem solving followed by his complete re imagining of a design problem, as if starting from scratch, resulted in the creation of a new, ideal product. hroughout his multi faceted career, Bel Geddes was a paradoxical figure made up of equal parts visionary and pragmatist, naturalist and industrialist, democrat and egoist. A number of products and practices now taken for granted can be traced directly back to Bel Geddes. His impact on the American landscape ranges from the U.S. federal highway system to all weather sports stadiums, revolving restaurants, modular domestic appliances and stylish home entertainment systems.
Download or read book Raymor written by Michael Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymor: Modern in the Tradition of Good Taste contains an insightful and incisive interview with Raymor founder Irving Richards, a pioneer in merchandising mid-20th century design for the home. To illustrate the breadth of the Raymor concept, included is a complete 1952 company catalog featuring early work by noted designers Arne Jacobsen, Michael Lax, Paul McCobb, George Nelson, Tony Paul, Ben Seibel, Arthur Umanoff, Hans Wegner and others.
Book Synopsis Design, Craft, and American Identity by : Dianne O. Pierce
Download or read book Design, Craft, and American Identity written by Dianne O. Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1939, in the significant moment just before the involvement of the United States in World War II, influential and successful industrial designer Russel Wright conceived a project intended to engage fellow designers, craftspeople, manufacturers, and key department stores in a mission to secure the pre-eminence of American design for a national audience. The "American-Way" project, as Wright called it, brought together craft and industry in the design of objects for middle-class Americans' homes. It was an ambitious marketing scheme, but far more than that, the American-Way project was a philosophy of American-ness in design when the country was struggling to define itself in all arenas. Almost forty designers, including Gilbert Rohde, Marianne Strengell, Raymond Loewy, and Wright himself, as well as some thirty-six prominent craftspeople, joined to take American design into every aspect of the domestic interior. The venture brought issues of meaning and moral intent such as Modernism's implications for everyday Americans, the primacy of native design, and the necessity of "good" design for all, to the American consumer. Further, American-Way sought to combine the machine and the hand in an effort to coalesce these two polarities of the industrialized world. This paper examines the ideas and objects of the American-Way project for what they express about America's mid-century cultural and design contexts. Situating the project within the career and ideological framework of Russel Wright, the paper examines the structure and intent of the American-Way program, analyzes a representative sample of its designs, and details its outcomes. Building on previous scholarship on Russel Wright's prolific industrial design career, this paper examines the American-Way project as a tangible expression of Wright's ideas about native American design, American mid-century lifestyle, and good design for all of the buying public. It further places the American-Way project at the center of significant movements in design in the pre-World War II period."
Book Synopsis America Goes Modern by : Nonie Gadsden
Download or read book America Goes Modern written by Nonie Gadsden and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How design made America modern: masterpieces of furniture, metalware and plastics from the early 20th century During the 1920s and 1930s, the speed of modern life in the United States, accelerated by advances in transportation, communication, technology and advertising, changed how people lived their lives, and the objects they chose to live with. A new profession emerged to help American manufacturers and consumers navigate the overwhelming transitions of the era. Through the power of design--form, color, ornament and materials--the earliest industrial designers created a modern aesthetic that came to represent American hopes, dreams and fantasies. America Goes Modernexplores these designers' achievements through close examination of selected masterworks. Each of these exceptional objects offers a window into the social, cultural, technological and economic world in which they were made and used. The book features sleek furniture, vibrant ceramics, streamlined metalwares and innovative plastics from the leading designers of the era. Designers include: Norman Bel Geddes, Manning Bowman Company, Jules Buoy, Donald Deskey, Paul Frankl, Earl Harvey, Ianelli Studios, Belle Kogan, William Lescaze, Erik Magnussen, Peter Muller Munk, Gilbert Rhode, RumRill Art Pottery, Victor Schreckengost, Walter Dorwin Teague, The Hall China Company, Harold Van Doren, John Vassos, Kem Weber, Western Coil and Electric Company and Russel Wright. Photographers and painters include: Berenice Abbott, Arthur Dove, Archibald Motley, Alvin Langdon Coburn, M. Murray Lebowitz, Norman Lewis, Max Weber, Margaret Bourke-White, Henry Callahan and Alfred Stieglitz.
Book Synopsis Handcrafted Modern by : Leslie Williamson
Download or read book Handcrafted Modern written by Leslie Williamson and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson’s photographs show these creative homes as they were lived in by their designers: Walter Gropius’s historic Bauhaus home in Massachusetts; Albert Frey’s floating modernist aerie on a Palm Springs rock outcropping; Wharton Esherick’s completely handmade Pennsylvania house, from the organic handcarved staircase to the iconic furniture. Personal and breathtaking by turn—these homes are exemplary studies of domestic modernism at its warmest and most creative.
