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LOOK OF THE CENTURY
Tambini, Michael
1996 46341 Michael Tambini, founder of Pentagram Design in London, presents The Look of the Century, a thorough yet concise wrap-up of the most outstanding designs of the last 100 years. A record of human inventiveness, as well as of human consumption, this weighty little softcover volume (512 pages) looks at various stylistic movements, their leaders, and the key developments and innovations that have shaped our aesthetic environment. Chock-a-block with thousands of small color reproductions and written in an extremely accessible style, this book serves as a kind of field guide to the world of products. It is organized into sections on each of the various rooms in a house and chapters on leisure, transportation, the office, graphics, advertising, and packaging. Form, craft, detail, size, longevity, availability, and cost are addressed for each item. And more complex issues like the impact of assembly-line production, the phenomenon of mass consumption, the notion of corporate identity, the consequences of the design industry for the environment, and the effects of computers on product forms and their construction are explored as well. Also included is an A to Z of designers' biographies, as well as a glossary of terms. --A.C. Smith --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly What's amazing, after looking through Michael Tambini's The Look of the Century, is how similar many things are at the two finials of this 100-year period. Clearly, those items most influenced by technology have changed greatly. The 1900 Graphophone, which played a cylinder, looks nothing like the Denon Stacking System D-90, which plays a CD. But design of the century has been marked by modernism, so Jean Puiforcat's 1928 tea service isn't unimaginably far from the Alessi tea set of 55 years later. Nor are watches or vases or chairs or fountain pens. But what's most interesting about this book published by DK Publishing in Association with the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian, is to watch the (sometimes cyclical) development over time. DK ADULT 078940950X / 9780789409508
Hardcover As New Condition East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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