Clara Porset's Design: Creating a Modern Mexico / Inventando un México moderno: El diseño de Clara Porset

Mallet, Ana Elena; Salinas, Oscar; Gálvez, Alejandro Hernández, et al; Porset, Clara

ISBN 10: 8475067417 / ISBN 13: 9788475067414

Published by Turner / Museo Franz Mayer, 2006

About this Item

First Printing of 2000 copies in illustrated turtleback binding (flexible boards), no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, slight edge wear to overhanging yapp edges, else Fine unread copy of this singular monograph on one of Mexico's midcentury design pioneers; Text in Spanish and English; sq 4to; 181pp + colophon, fully illustrated; illus endpapers; Overseas shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clara Porset's Design: Creating a Modern Mexico / Inventando un México moderno: El diseño de Clara Porset
• Publisher: Turner / Museo Franz Mayer
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8475067417
• ISBN 13: 9788475067414
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Interior Design / Home Decoration
  • Collectibles / Furniture
  • Art / Design

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Synopsis

While some of Clara Porset's furniture designs were intended for industrial manufacture and mass production, it's the ones inspired by elements of folk culture for which she is best known and that, perhaps, served her best. Porset's work has been associated with some of the most important architects of her time, including Barragn and Pani, but her artisanal projects kept her in close contact with craft workshops and studios, collaborating with craftsmen in varied disciplines to develop forms that harmonized elegantly with expressive natural materials. Porset became widely known in a nascent modern Mexico and other parts of the world thanks to the print media and to prominent commissions, as well as her own strategizing to find a market for her varied work and to see her name known--she diversified her professional relationships so that her designs would reach a wider spectrum of people and be seen in new settings by new audiences and potential clients. Clara Porset brings readers her life, her work and a bright moment in the modernization of Mexico.