The Practice of Design

Read, Herbert, intro; Schleger, Hans, design.

Language: English

Published by Lund Humphries, London, 1946

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25 x 20 cm. 227 pp. Green cloth with silver titles to spine and white flash design to front: clean and crisp. Spiral bound is entirely firm. Essays, B&W photos and images by Alastair Morton, Victor Skellern, Milner Gray, Norbert Dutton, Frederick Gibberd, Sadie Speight, C G Stillman, J L Martin, F J Samuely, Misha Black, Robert Harling. A real modernist design gem in its own right with muted colours and offset typography.

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Title
The Practice of Design
Author
Read, Herbert, intro; Schleger, Hans, design.
Publisher
Lund Humphries, London
Publication year
1946
Condition
Very good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
Seller catalogs
Architecture, Art, Art History, Art/Photography, Avant Garde, Design, Modernism

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Undercover Books has been trading since 2005. We have a large selection of books in all genres and specialise in design from the Modern period. We hold a good stock of Modernist fiction in German, French and English.

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Modern Firsts, Design curios and Ephemera

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