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Christopher Wilk

Autor von Modernism: Designing a New World

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This book examines in detail the background of the only complete Wright interior in Europe. This is the office that Wright designed for his most distinguished patron, Edgar Kaufmann - for whom he also built the daring country house, Fallingwater. The Office is on display in the V&A. The book includes chapters on the architect, his client, Edgar J. Kaufmann, the project and the later history of the office.
 
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petervanbeveren | Jan 7, 2024 |
A catalog built around an exhibit (which I regretfully missed when it was in Washington), this work concentrates on visual Modernism as the blueprint for a "a machine for living," as the theorists of the movement (with particular coverage of Europe) tried to answered the social and physical collapse of World War I essentially with a new way of life, starting with a physical culture that took the machine and industrialism seriously. The period of coverage (1914-1939) illustrates the political implications being illuminated, as the movement as an international, trans-socialist phenomena is overtaken by events; either by totalitarian governments who found the philosophy offensive, or the rise of the modern commercial designers of America with the economic weight of the superpower-to-be behind them. I might also note that this is more of a tome you consult rather than casually read.… (mehr)
 
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Shrike58 | 1 weitere Rezension | Feb 20, 2011 |
Great reference book for English furniture
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latinobookgeek | Mar 10, 2007 |
shelved at: 91 : Architecture
 
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mwbooks | 1 weitere Rezension | May 1, 2018 |

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