The Streamlined Decade.

viii, 214pp, indexbibliography, notes, num bw ills. Or pictorial card. Some soiling to covers, sticker on front cover, bottom corner of rear cover creased, several page corners creased, minor foxing and a couple of tiny stains to edges. In the 1930s a new profession-industrial design- arose in America. Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, Walter Dorwin Teague and others applied the principles of streamling to useful products large and small, making them more attractive, safer and more functional. The author shows how streamlined form had analogies in stream-of-consciousness literature, 'swing' music, cinematography and other manifestations of the 20th century. Size: Small 4to.