Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010

by Judith Gura

Book Overview

With the first decade of the twenty-first century behind us, it is time to reassess the concept of "modern," a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when it signified current or recent events. Not until the eighteenth century did it become a stylistic term; more recently it has generally referred to the aesthetic that evolved from the Bauhaus and flourished in the mid-twentieth century. Though proclaiming freedom from the limitations of style, it became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393733041
• ISBN13: 9780393733044
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 10.1"