Download or read book Twentieth century Ornament written by Jonathan M. Woodham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twentieth century Ornament written by Jonathan M. Woodham and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing constructivism, classicism, Bauhaus, surrealism, pop, and postmodern, Woodham's (design history, Brighton Polytechnic) chronological account describes, compares and contrasts all the major trends in North American and European ornament from 1900 to the present. With 400 illustrations, 200 in color. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ornament written by and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ornament written by Sims, Reed et Fogg Limited (London) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ornament written by James Trilling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism and its subsequent reinvention. Trilling explains how ornament works, why it has to be explained and why it matters.

Download or read book Treasury of Book Ornament and Decoration written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare, royalty-free initials, musical motifs, animals, borders, frames, more. Art Nouveau, Art Deco, other styles.

Download or read book Pictorial Archive of Printer s Ornaments from the Renaissance to the 20th Century written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1,489 decorative ornaments for artists and craftspeople: headpieces, tailpieces, dingbats, lunettes, calligraphic and heraldic devices, and more, in Renaissance, Baroque, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and many other styles.

Download or read book Twentieth century Ornament Jonathan M Woodham written by Jonathan M. Woodham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twentieth Century Decoration written by Stephen Calloway and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 500 plates (half in color) Calloway (design and drawings, Victoria and Albert) illustrates the 20th century devotion to interiors as expressions of individual taste, national characteristics, and artistic and social aspirations. He charts the course of fashion and the influence of designers, decorators, artists, clients, and innovators in interior decoration in both America and Europe. The work is divided by decade each with an introduction discussing the main trends of the period and continues with many and varied illustrations--including photographs, paintings, drawings, and catalogue and magazine illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Function of Ornament written by Farshid Moussavi and published by Actarbirkhauser. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes.

Download or read book Twentieth Century Design written by Jonathan M. Woodham and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. The book explores the way in which 20th-century designs such as the Coca-Cola bottle have affected our culture more than those considered true classics

Download or read book The Grammar of Ornament written by Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ornament and Crime written by Adolf Loos and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'. Translated by Shaun Whiteside With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

Download or read book Midcentury Christmas Holiday Fads Fancies and Fun from 1945 to 1970 written by Sarah Archer and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Christmas in the 1950s and '60s Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baking, a rocket ship for pretend space travel, or a Slinky, just because. At Christmastime, postwar America's dreams and desires were on full display, from shopping mall Santas to shiny aluminum Christmas trees, from the Grinch to Charlie Brown's beloved spindly Christmas tree. Now design maven Sarah Archer tells the story of how Christmastime in America rocketed from the Victorian period into Space Age, thanks to the new technologies and unprecedented prosperity that shaped the era. The book will feature iconic favorites of that time, including: • A visual feast of Christmastime eats and recipes, from magazines and food and appliance makers • Christmas cards from artists and designers of the era, featuring Henry Dreyfuss, Charles & Ray Eames, and Alexander Girard • Vintage how-to templates and instructions for holiday decor from Good Housekeeping and the 1960's craft craze • Advice from Popular Mechanics on how to glamorize your holiday dining table • Decorating advice for your new Aluminum Christmas Tree from ALCOA (the Aluminum Company of America) • The first American-made glass ornaments from Corning Glassworks Midcentury Christmas is sure to be on everyone’s most-wanted lists.

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Download or read book Designed for Delight written by Mus Ee Des Arts D Ecoratifs De Montr Eal and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Download or read book Ornamental Design Prints written by Rudolf Berliner and published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prints of designs have always been of utmost importance in architecture, arts and crafts, and interior decoration in European countries. Indispensable to studios, they contributed to the rapid dissemination of ornamental innovations and helped to assert the newest styles. This special edition of Berliner s seminal work uses sumptuous illustrations and informative texts to present the development of engravings of ornament designs and the numerous variations on particular types of motifs. This compendium of the most beautiful, important and unusual ornaments from the fifteenth to the twentieth century offers an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists and those who are passionate about the genre."