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100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection

100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection

Vitra Design Museum

From the Breuer chair to Gio Ponti's Superleggera to the Memphis Group's designs, this book is indispensible for furniture buffs.
Photography, Modern Architecture, and Design: The Alberto ...

Photography, Modern Architecture, and Design: The Alberto ...

Vitra Design Museum

... work of Walter Gropius, El Lissitzky, Andre Lurgat, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jacobus Johannes Oud, Gerrit Rietveld, Michael Wolgensinger. © 2005 Dion Neutra, Architect. Used with ...
Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision, 1925-1950

Design in America: The Cranbrook Vision, 1925-1950

Robert Judson Clark

Eero Saarinen's second wife, Aline Bernstein Louchheim, was a cousin of Edgar Kaufmann, jr., then Curator of Design at The Museum of Modern Art. During the 1940s and fifties, the Museum was at the center of developments in avant-garde  ...
Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube ...

Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube ...

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Elise Hodson is a chair of the School of Design at George Brown College in Toronto. She is a design curator, educator, and student with Masters degrees in museum studies (University of Toronto) and design history (Bard Graduate Center, ...
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain

DK

Cromwell Museum (Huntingdon) 212 D-Day Museum (Portsmouth) 173 Dales Countryside Museum (Hawes) 389 ... Folk Museum 390 Groam House Museum ( Rosemarkie) 535 Grosvenor Museum (Chester) 314,315 Hands on History ...
Museum Exhibition Planning and Design

Museum Exhibition Planning and Design

Elizabeth Bogle

This book focuses on both the procedural elements of successful planning, like the phases of exhibit design and all associated tasks and issues, and on the design elements that make up the realized exhibit itself, such as color, light, ...
Great Britain

Great Britain

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... Centre 354 Birmingham Museum & art Gallery 475, 477 Black Watch Museum 883 Blackwell arts & Crafts house 618 ... Museum 643 Groam house Museum 924 Grosvenor Museum 585 handel house Museum 157-8 herschel Museum of ...
Balancing Preservation and Interaction in the Museum Setting

Balancing Preservation and Interaction in the Museum Setting

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APPENDIX C: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT NOTES BENJAMIN FILENE Wednesday October 4, 2006 Benjamin Filene meeting • Design and content need to be in sync (customize design to content, ie. Artifacts or story I want to tell) • How does ...
Made in Canada: Craft and Design in the Sixties

Made in Canada: Craft and Design in the Sixties

Alan Elder

For their tremendous effort, enthusiasm, and cooperative spirit, it is an honour to thank Alan Elder, the Canadian Museum of Civilization's first curator of craft and design, and Design Exchange's Elise Hodson, director of exhibitions. Samantha  ...
Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern

Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern

Fiona MacCarthy

The book features essays by renowned commentators on Modern British design including Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London, and cultural historian and widely published writer on design, Fiona MacCarthy.
Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Amelia Peck

Superb examples of interior design through the ages are on view in the period room at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Scotland

Scotland

Josephine Buchanan

Keil 219 Kelso 191 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (Glasgow) 169, 170, 171 Kelvingrove Park (Glasgow) 169 ... Museum 283 Groam House Museum 289 Harwell's House Museum 187 Hawick Museum 190 Highland Folk Museum 288  ...
The Routledge Companion to Design Studies

The Routledge Companion to Design Studies

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Textiles and Ornamental Arts at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Elise Hodson As design history expands beyond the study of Western subjects, there is a risk that Western narratives and methodologies will continue to dominate ...
California Design, 1930¿1965 Living In a Modern Way

California Design, 1930¿1965 Living In a Modern Way

Wendy Kaplan

This generously illustrated book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the first comprehensive examination of California's mid-century modern design.
The New Museum of Modern Art

The New Museum of Modern Art

Glenn D. Lowry

"Design for MoMA offers an affordable, concise, and detailed,overview of the new building and its master architect by Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Rick Steves Pocket Paris

Rick Steves Pocket Paris

Rick Steves

Included in Rick Steves Pocket Paris: Sights: the Orangerie Museum, Rodin Museum, Cluny Museum, Army Museum and Napoleon's Tomb, Pompidou Center, Carnavalet Museum, and Picasso Museum Walks and Tours: the Historic Paris Walk, Louvre Tour, ...
Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts

Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts

Bettina Messias Carbonell

... Histories and Identities in the Museum 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Introduction Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum SusanA. Crane Museum Matters Gyan Prakash Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums Mónica ...
The 20 Minute Gardener: Projects, Plants and Designs for ...

The 20 Minute Gardener: Projects, Plants and Designs for ...

Editors of Sunset

... 42 (design: Brooke Dietrich), 43, 44 both (design: Baylor Chapman and Lila B. Design), 45 (design: Baylor Chapman), 46–49 all (design: Antonio Martins), 52– 53 both (design: Judy Kameon, Elysian Landscapes), 54 (design: Davis Dalbok),  ...
Court and conquest: Ottoman origins and the design for ...

Court and conquest: Ottoman origins and the design for ...

Walter B. Denny

Ottoman origins and the design for Handel's Tamerlano at the Glimmerglass Opera : featuring costumes designed by Judy Levin : the Equitable Gallery, New York, November 19, 1998-January 23, 1999 : The Kent State University Museum,  ...
Museum Notes

Museum Notes

Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art

... Janet Phillips Alan Rosenberg Charles Rosenberg Ed Rossbach Janet Sachs- Toomer Scalamandre" Cynthia Schira Robert Scofield N. David Scotti Anne Seton Lesley E. Shearer EarleG. Shettleworth, Jr. Mrs. Dorothy Simons Aaron Siskind ...
Design is One

Design is One

Massimo Vignelli

Features design for corporate identity, packaging, post design, interior design, architectural graphics, book and magazine, furniture and product design.
Nature Museum

Nature Museum

Angela Leeper

Introduces a natural history museum, exploring who works there and what they do, different types of exhibits, and other things to do in a museum.
The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers

The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers

Edward Porter Alexander

For any student or museum professional interested in the history of the museum, this volume is the place to start.
Time Out New York

Time Out New York

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... Chinese in America Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Museum ofSex Museum ofthe City ofNew York Museum ofthe Moving Image N Neue Galerie New Museumof Contemporary Art New YorkBotanical Garden ...
A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum,: Descriptive of the ...

A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum,: Descriptive of the ...

Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum, Philip Bury Duncan. He thus very clearly explains the plan of his arrangement of the contents of the Museum : " The first division proposes to familiarize the eye to those relations " of all natural objects which form the basis ...
California Design, 1930--1965: "Living in a Modern Way"

California Design, 1930--1965: "Living in a Modern Way"

Wendy Kaplan

51 Otto Natzler, interview by Jo Lauria at the 49 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 18, 1998; videotape in LACMA's Decorative Arts and Design Department. 52 Form and Fire: Natzler Ceramics, 1939–1972, exh. cat. ( Washington ...
The Museum Experience

The Museum Experience

John H Falk

This book is an essential reference for all museum professionals and students of museum studies, and has been used widely for higher education courses in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and has been translated into Japanese and Chinese.
Iron and Steel in Ancient Times

Iron and Steel in Ancient Times

Vagn Fabritius Buchwald

Flemming Rieck Silkeborg Museum. Christian Fischer Skanderborg Museum, Herbert Madsen, Mariann Hahn-Thomsen Skjern-Egvad Museum, Torben Egeberg Hansen Varde Staalvaerk, Robert Thomsen Vejle Museum, Per Kristian Madsen ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections: A Museum for ...

John Walsh

Paul Getty, 1965 This book appears on the occasion of the opening of the Getty Center, which includes a new building for the ]. Paul Getty Museum. The Museum is dedicated to the task Mr. Getty put in such modest terms: interesting people in ...
Design for Sport

Design for Sport

Anxo Cereijo Roibás

Design for Sport also examines how compelling user-centred design methodologies - such as participatory design techniques and the use of appropriate ethnographies - can be successfully applied in the process of sport design.

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