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The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now - An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design (Paperback)
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The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now - An Illustrated Guide to Modern Design (Paperback)
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This is an enormously readable history of modernist design,
enhanced by the author's black and white drawings that both
illustrate and elucidate the text. It is a book meant for lay
readers and examines its subject with the kind of wit and insight
found in John Berger's ""Ways of Seeing"" and Edward E. Tufte's
""Envisioning Information"". ""The Bauhaus Ideal"" is both a
picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy
of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on
interior design - not just on architecture, but also on furniture,
glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of
domestic arts. Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Buckminster Fuller,
Charles and Ray Eames, and others were part of a movement to make
sense of design in the modern world. Their experiments - both
successes and failures - eloquently demonstrate what design can
accomplish. 'Design' itself was an invention of the Bauhaus era to
combine usefulness, beauty, and economy into a reasonable whole.
This unique volume introduces modern design principles and examines
them from an historically critical perspective. It concludes with
some ideas for melding modern solemnity with postmodern irony. And
in each phase the illustrations speak as eloquently as the text.
This invaluable book is itself a work of art and is being issued in
paperback at a time when there is revival of interest in modernism
- furniture by Le Corbusier, Noguchi, and Eames have never been
more popular. It serves as a beautifully illustrated design
manifesto.
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