The first comprehensive book on the furniture, textiles and the other works of two of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Features innovative objects that the couple designed for their homes while teaching at the Bauhaus in Germany and following their move to the United States in 1933. Includes specially commissioned photographs of important but little-known works. Illuminating essays celebrate the Alberses endless creativity and set their ground-breaking work in the context of international Modernism.
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Nicholas Fox Weber is Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Martin Fuller is a write specializing in architecture and design. His work regularly appears in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books and House & Garden.
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Fox Weber, Nicholas and Martin Filler. JOSEF + ANNI ALBERS: Designs for Living. Foreword by Paul Warwick Thompson; 160 pp., over 150 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. London and New York, Merrell Publications, in association with New York, Cooper-Hewitt, National design Museum, 2004. Seller Inventory # 115129