Design in Modern Life

Herausgeber: Gloag, John

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1946, this book is based on a series of broadcast talks on design. Led by an engineer, an artist and critic of architecture and industrial design, the discussions focussed on the problems that were involved by a general application of design to the environment of contemporary life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781032366111
• ISBN-10: 1032366117
• Artikelnr.: 69949502

Autorenporträt

An author of almost sixty books, with topics ranging from interiors to furniture history, from industrial design to the use of plastics, Gloag was a member of an elite design culture that was highly visible throughout the 1930s and 40s.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Who Knows What the Public Wants? John Gloag 2. The Design of Dwellings
E. Maxwell Fry 3. The Living-Room and Furniture Design Gordon Russell 4.
Clothes - And Design James Laver 5. Design in the Kitchen Elizabeth Denby
6. The Design of Illumination A. B. Read 7. Design in Public Buildings
Robert Atkinson 8. The Design of the Street Frank Pick 9. Design in the
Countryside and the Town E. Maxwell Fry 10. The Meaning and Purpose of
Design Frank Pick.