Continuing to put great classic and contemporary design within everyones grasp, Chronicle Books proudly delivers the next four installments of the popular Compact Design Portfolio. Written by top design critics, these books cover modern masters whose work ranges from the cozily domestic to the aggressively avant-garde: Eva Zeisel, whose elegantly democratic housewares span a 70-year career; Ingo Maurer, who raises lamp and lighting design to a high art form; Gaetano Pesce, whose rejection of traditional good taste brought about revolutionary furniture design; and George Nelson, the impresario behind the Marshmallow sofa and other Herman Miller classics. Follow-ing the introductory essay, a visual gallery exhibits selections of the designers best work in photographs and sketches. Presented in an irresistible small format, this series encapsulates the life, work, and influence of the great designers of our time.
With a trailblazing career that spans more than seventy-five years and continues to this day, with recent creations that include a Martini glass featured in Bombay Sapphire ads and vases...
The language in which this dialogue is conducted, 'the language of things' is one in which Ziesel's fluency is unparalleled, and her thoughts, read alongside photographs of her stunning creations and of those that have inspired her, make ...
Eva Zeisel: The Shape of Life
Bollard Bollard Figure 7.1 Equipment protection. Connections Testing After identifying the physical location where the equipment will be placed, reexamine the connections for the various components. Remember that during the site survey, ...
In the past, all too often the work of female designers was overlooked in the literature on design, while also being woefully under–represented in exhibitions and museum collections. This book seeks to redress these outstanding omissions.
This volume focuses on the career of Eva Zeisel & her ceramic designs from the 1920s to the 1960s. Her long extensive career began in Europe & then to the...
With an abundance of images and an insightful essay by design critic Michael Webb, Compact Design Portfolio: George Nelson celebrates this inclusive genius of classic mid-twentieth century design."--BOOK JACKET.
In an introduction to the catalogue of his first art exhibition in 1956, when a mere seventeen, he brashly declared his "right to be incoherent.
Presents an artistic celebration of some of the most creative and successful mid-century women, and how their work still resonates today.
The catalog includes an essay by Karen L. Kettering, a forward by Todd D. Smith, and color photographs, historical and works in the exhibition."