Total Design (Hardcover)

George H. Marcus

ISBN 10: 0847843653 / ISBN 13: 9780847843657

Published by Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2014

About this Item

Hardcover. A highly accessible presentation of iconic modernist houses--offering a rare detailed view into their interiors and gardens--that will appeal to readers of such high-style publications as World of Interiors. Total Design is a dazzling presentation of twenty-five masterpieces of modernist residential design ranging in style from Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau to the ever-more-refined forms of the twenty-first century. Celebrating the ultimate masterpieces of modernist design, from the Arts and Crafts movement up to the twenty-first century, Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Total Design (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847843653
• ISBN 13: 9780847843657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Celebrating the ultimate masterpieces of modernist design, from the Arts and Crafts movement up to the twenty-first century, Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Each of the spectacular houses making up Total Design demonstrates how an architect realized a unifying vision through all aspects of design—architecture, furniture, fittings, decorative objects, color, and gardens. Presenting masterpieces of modern architecture conceived as complete works of art inside and out, author George H. Marcus, a veteran chronicler of modernist design, delivers a highly accessible tour of the creations of some of the twentieth century’s greatest architects and designers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Gio Ponti. Together these masterworks of design offer a stunning survey of the many modes of modernist design, from the inventive refinement of Pierre Chareau to the colorful Nordic forms of Finn Juhl to the twenty-first-century expressionism of Daniel Libeskind.

About the Author

George H. Marcus, adjunct assistant professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, is coauthor of the pioneering survey Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design and The Houses of Louis Kahn. His other publications include Masters of Modern Design, What Is Design Today?, and Le Corbusier: Inside the Machine for Living. For more than thirty years, he served as director of publications and graphic design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.