Overview
A valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and enthusiasts, this book chronicles the evolution of modern interior design in the United States throughout the 1930s. With images and detailed descriptions, design historian Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than one hundred interiors by fifty designers and architects, including Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Percival Goodman, Frederick Kiesler, William Lescaze, William Muschenheim, Tommi Parzinger, Gilbert Rohde, Eugene Schoen, and Kem Weber; set designers Cedric Gibbons and Joseph Urban; and industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Russel Wright. The book also highlights the work of women modernists who are practically unknown today, including Virginia Conner, Freda Diamond, Eleanor Le Maire, and Madame Majeska. This lively and important examination of the development of modernism comprehensively details, year by year, individual projects and their impact on modern interior design in America today. AUTHOR: Marilyn F. Friedman is a design historian whose work focuses on the development and popularisation of modern design across America during the 1920s and 30s. Born and educated in New York, Friedman studied design history at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, earning a Master of Arts degree, which led to her first publication, Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior (Rizzoli, 2003). She regularly contributes articles to design journals and museum publications and has lectured throughout the United States, and in England and Canada. SELLING POINTS: The 200 photographs and renderings illustrate how designers working in the United States in the 1930s forged a quintessentially American modern interior design, using both traditional and innovative materials while incorporating influences as varied as art deco, the Bauhaus, the Viennese Secession, Shintoism, and streamlining A valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and enthusiasts, featuring detail on more than one hundred modern American interiors which are as exciting and relevant today as they were in the 1930s 24 colour, 202 b/w images
Full Product Details
Author: Marilyn F. Friedman
Publisher: Bauer and Dean Publishers Inc
Imprint: Bauer and Dean Publishers Inc
ISBN: 9780983863236
ISBN 10: 0983863237
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 April 2018
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
...lawyer turned historian Marilyn Friedman uncovers the beauty and intellect that propelled America from style imitator to innovator during the worst economic downturn in American record.--Surface Mag Here is the definitive scholarly chronicle of how it all happened.--Cara Greenberg 1st Dibs
Here is the definitive scholarly chronicle of how it all happened.--Cara Greenberg 1st Dibs ...lawyer turned historian Marilyn Friedman uncovers the beauty and intellect that propelled America from style imitator to innovator during the worst economic downturn in American record.--Surface Mag
Author Information
Marilyn F. Friedman is a design historian whose work focuses on the development and popularisation of modern design across America during the 1920s and '30s. Born and educated in New York, Friedman studied design history at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, earning a Master of Arts degree, which led to her first publication, Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior (Rizzoli, 2003). She regularly contributes articles to design journals and museum publications and has lectured throughout the United States, and in England and Canada.
