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Michigan Modern : Design that Shaped America.

Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan's architecture and design heritage.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arnold, Amy L.
Otros Autores: Conway, Brian D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newburyport : Gibbs Smith, 2016.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Beginnings; Kahn's Industry; Pure Design; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Modernizing the American Lifestyle; The Automobile and Design; The Perfect Storm; Automobility for All; Where Today Meets Tomorrow; Michigan, Modernism, and Suburbia; The Car and What Came of It; Modern Design and Home Furnishings; Grand Rapids Furniture and Mass-Produced Modernism; Threads; Alexander Girard; George Nakashima and the Widdicomb Furniture Company; Competition, Collaboration, and Connection; Interview with Ruth Adler Schnee, Textile Designer; The Knoll Look.
  • Modernizing RecreationPlastic Fantastic; Interview with Jim Miller-Melberg, Artist; Michigan's Modern Architecture Legacy; Alden B. Dow; A Usonian Michigan; Eero Saarinen; A Challenge to the Future; An Extraordinary Workshop; Serenity and Delight; Ralph Rapson; Interview with Gunnar Birkerts, Architect; Balthazar Korab; Michigan's Influence; Import-Export; Conversations and Convergences; Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America Exhibition Retrospective; Selected Bibliography; Contributors.