Spanish Design and Architecture

Coad, Emma Dent

ISBN 10: 0289800552 / ISBN 13: 9780289800553

Published by Studio Vista, London, 1990

About this Item

208pp, index,bibliography, chronology, num col ills. Or pictorial card covers. Minor edge wear to covers. The best of contemporary Spanish design including fashion, interior, graphics, product design and architecture. Profusely illustrated. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 012521

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spanish Design and Architecture
• Publisher: Studio Vista, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 0289800552
• ISBN 13: 9780289800553
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and the Arts

About this title

Synopsis

This is an illustrated source book of contemporary Spanish applied arts, architecture and design. Individual chapters cover developments in the post-Franco era in architecture; furniture; fashion including fabrics, jewellery, fashion accessories and fashion photograpy; product design and graphic design, from signage for public places to project studies for the 1992 Olympics and Expo, as well as Spanish typography and magazine design. The book aims to provide a detailed briefing on style, design and architecture in Spain today and tomorrow. The author, Emma Dent Coad is an Anglo-Spanish design lecturer and journalist and is a consultant to the Spanish Design Council's international promotional programme. She was co-author of "The Design Source Book".

From Publishers Weekly

The newly liberal climate of the post-Franco era has given birth to a "distinctive Spanish style . . . radical, witty, confident," writes Coad, a London-based design lecturer. In architecture, staid conservatism has been supplanted by an "organic rationalism" full of soft, human touches. She finds Spaniards' love of open spaces pervading homes, shops, restaurants and interior design, and sees irony, which she claims is Spain's favorite type of humor, in "new expressionist" paintings by Pedro Almodovar and in the contortions of a bar stool. Included in this delightful, comprehensive survey are the asymetric women's fashions of Sybilla, radical jewelry designs from the island of Menorca and posters trenchant with political and cultural symbols. Featuring 200 plates, three-fourths in color, this album closes with references to the Barcelona Olympics, the Seville World Expo and Madrid's "Capital of the Year," events all slated for 1992.
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