Description: The twentieth century has been unique in the history of art and design, uniting creative imaginations with hi-tech and mass-production methods. The result has been well designed products available to an unprecedented number of people. Many of these objects have found their way into the world's finest museums, but even more beneficial has been their presence and common use in households around the world. A Century of Design tells this fascinating story, combining the history of modern design movements with a chronological review of 80 top designers. It opens with pioneers who include Italy's Carlo Bugatti, England's Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and America's Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. Subsequent chapters discuss --
-- Conservative Modernism in the period between the two world wars ...
-- The Machine Aesthetic pioneered by designers including Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ...
-- The New Modernism that emerged after World War II, including design leaders such as Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen ...
-- Italian and Scandanavian high-style design leaders of the 1960s, and the reactions against high-style that took such forms as Pop Art and Functionalism ...
-- Postmodernism, Minimalism, and End-of-Millennium movements, driven by new eclecticism and by a rejection of art manifestoes.

Here is a book that's as beautiful to look at as it is exciting to read. It contains more than 580 full-color photographs covering a wide spectrum of objects that include furniture, glass, ceramics, metalware, industrial products, and household appliances. It's a wonderful volume for gift-giving or for the personal libraries of discriminating readers.

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