Richard Riemerschmid's Extraordinary Living Things

by Freyja Hartzell

How Richard Riemerschmid's designs of everyday--but "extraordinary"--objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by the advent of World War I, had become an important modern architect. This, however, the first English-language book on Riemerschmid, celebrates his understudied legacy as a designer of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026204742X
• ISBN13: 9780262047425
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.1"