Fifties Furniture

by Leslie A. Piña
Fifties Furniture
Author: Leslie A. Piña
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:
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Take a detailed look at the exciting and highly collectible modern furniture of the 1950s--furniture created by renowned designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, and Eero Saarinen, and produced by companies such as Herman Miller, Knoll, and Heywood-Wakefield. Included in this new and improved second edition are over 450 color and vintage black and white photographs bearing detailed captions for all the classic designs, plus accessories, 70 designer biographies and company histories, a construction case study, a source list, bibliography, values, and an index. This single volume is an invaluable reference.

Fifties Furniture by Paul McCobb

by Paul McCobb
Fifties Furniture by Paul McCobb
Author: Paul McCobb
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764311390
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Today Paul McCobb's furniture and interior designs of the 1950s rank alongside Russell Wright, Gustav Stickley, and Heywood-Wakefield as marked staples in modern design. Paul McCobb's Directional Designs furniture line exhibits the low-cost, functional, and versatile furniture components, storage units, and interiors that earned McCobb the title of "America's decorator" during the mid-twentieth century. Containing over 100 coordinating room settings, including chairs, sofas, desks, benches, shelves, interiors, and much more, with information on McCobb's achievements and design principles, up-to-date price guide, and index, this book presents one of the backbones of modern design.

New York Magazine

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Total Pages: 148
Release: 1984-11-05
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Classic Modern

by Deborah Dietsch
Classic Modern
Author: Deborah Dietsch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0684867443
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There is no hotter style today than the cooler than cool work of modern designers and architects from the 1940s and 50s. Endlessly inventive and emminently livable, mid-century modernism has an optimism and confidence born of postwar abundance, and a spirited elegance that appeals powerfully fifty years later. In CLASSIC MODERN, design expert Deborah Dietsch introduces readers to the basic tenets of modern design and explains how the simple yet inspired forms typical of this style were so readily disseminated into mainstream American culture. Filled throughout with enticing examples of mid-century pieces from such timeless designers as Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Arne Jacobsen, and George Nelson, this beautiful book recaptures the excitement of the period's brilliant designs.

Dunbar

by Leslie Pina
Dunbar
Author: Leslie Pina
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764310539
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Dunbar furniture designs combine the luxuries of elegance, warmth, and contemporary style with functionalism, comfort, and stability. This reproduction of the 1956 Dunbar catalog brings together 356 pieces that reflect the fine workmanship of Edward Wormley's contemporary furniture designs. This book is a historical landmark in the best in modern furniture design for mid-twentieth century America. With a price guide to aid the collector and dealer, it is a welcome addition to all modern design libraries.

New York Magazine

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New York Magazine
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Total Pages: 148
Release: 1984-11-05
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ISBN:
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The G-Plan Revolution

by Basil Hyman
The G-Plan Revolution
Author: Basil Hyman
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:
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This publication will be a historical account of the development of furniture in the fifties and particularly the sixties. However, the emphasis will be on an interesting and entertaining read for the popular market, rather than an academic textbook. The publication will also be a good guide for the collector.The G- Plan Revolution will be a colourful, hardback, packed with period advertisements. It will have instant appeal to anyone who remembers G-Plan in its heyday, or those who have an interest in collecting furniture from the sixties or a general nostalgia for the era. The publication will not only discuss G-Plan, but also many other furniture manufacturers of this period. Designed by Sean Murphy of Value and Service, the book is an artwork in itself with a retro feel.

Mid-century Modern

by Cara Greenberg
Mid-century Modern
Author: Cara Greenberg
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Furniture
ISBN: 9780517884751
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Taking full advantage of the ressurgence in popularity of retro-fifties design, this highly praised book lets the reader rediscover the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaciousness of biomorphic furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, unusual angles, and other design delights. Photos.

House & Garden Fifties House

by Catriona Gray
House & Garden Fifties House
Author: Catriona Gray
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1840916869
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The post-war consumer boom of the 1950s, coupled with a desire for new, innovative design resulted in one of the most exciting decades in the history of interiors - a visual revolution that was captured on the pages of British House & Garden. In Fifties House, mid-century modern enthusiast Catriona Gray has drawn on the magazine's peerless archive, curating the best illustrations and photographs to show how the use of colour, pattern, homewares and furniture evolved through the decade. The homes of key tastemakers are featured including Le Corbusier, Giò Ponti, Terence Conran and Hans and Florence Knoll. The first title in the new Decades of Design series, House & Garden Fifties House is required reading for mid-century modern enthusiasts, collectors and decorators in search of inspiration from the most influential homes of the past.