Playfully Rigid: Swiss Architecture, Graphic Design, Product Design, 1950-2000

Language: English

Published by Lars Muller Publishers, 2007

3037780908 / 9783037780909

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Name inked out on front endpaper, otherwise an excellent copy. 2007 Hard Cover. 299 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. This broad selection of Swiss architecture, graphic design, and design from 1950 to 2006 demonstrates that in this context, playful humor and clarity are by no means opposites, but a highly unusual duo of qualities that mingle and interpenetrate. The question addressed by this publication is: are these examples from three professions, various regions and languages, and a period of more than fifty years bound together by a common denominator? No parade of luxury items, but talents and ideas finding material expression and clients with the courage to embrace new "inventions," presented with examples from architecture, graphic design, and design: movie theaters, swimming pools, pedestrian bridges, gas stations, posters, journals, record and CD covers, books, web design, furniture, and the legendary TEE train (Trans-Europe Express). This publication is accompanied by an exhibition at the Kornhausforum in Bern, which then goes on to additional locations throughout the world.

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Title
Playfully Rigid: Swiss Architecture, Graphic Design, Product Design, 1950-2000
Author
Lichtenstein, Claude
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers
Publication year
2007
Condition
Near Fine
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Binding
Hard Cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
3037780908
ISBN 13
9783037780909
Item weight
33 ounces
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6x1x9

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