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The Finnish design firm Artek is best known as the producer and distributor of Modernist bentwood furniture designed by Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). However, its mission was more complex and multifaceted, grounded in the notion that art and design could enhance everyday life. Artek and the Aaltos showcases more than three hundred objects, including furniture, glassware, lighting, design sketches, drawings, textile swatches, and photographs. Most of the material is published here for the first time. It contextualizes the contributions of Artek, and those of its founders, Alvar and his wife, Aino Marsio Aalto (1894-1949), providing evidence for their close professional partnership as well as critical interpretations of their major projects. It also considers individuals such as Maija Heikenheimo, whose career at Artek spanned three decades. In addition, this book examines the Aaltos' advocacy for the use of standardized forms and shows how modern designers continue to work with the Artek product line and within the parameters of the company's mission.0Fully indexed appendices present new scholarship, including an inventory of the Artek product line (furniture, textiles, and glass), and a list of public and private commissions. This book is the first English-language publication on the topic, as well as the most comprehensive, with chapters authored by leading scholars of design history and architecture.

Design --- History --- Aalto, Aino, --- Aalto, Alvar, --- Artek Oy Ab

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Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early culture.In this volume a distinguished group of scholars gathers to celebrate the work of Harry Berger, Jr. To "celebrate," in Berger's words, is "to visit something either in great numbers or else frequently-to go away and come back, go away and come back, go away and come back. Celebrating is what you do the second or third time around, but not the first. To celebrate is to revisit. To revisit is to revise. Celebration is the eureka of revision." Not only former students but distinguished colleagues and scholars come together in these pages to discover Berger's eurekas-to revisit the rigor and originality of his criticism, and occasionally to revise its conclusions, all through the joy of strenuous engagement. Nineteen essays on Berger's Shakespeare, his Spenser, his Plato, and his Rembrandt, on his theories of interpretation and cultural change and on the ethos of his critical and pedagogical styles, open new approaches to the astonishing ongoing body of work authored by Berger. An introduction by the editors and an afterword by Berger himself place this festival of interpretation in the context of Berger's intellectual development and the reception of his work from the mid-twentieth century into the first decade of the twenty-first.

Scholars --- Critics --- Berger, Harry --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Berger, Harry,

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In 2007 Irma Boom’s book Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor was named ‘Most Beautiful Book in the World’ at the Leipzig book fair. This book became a bestseller, collector’s item and exposed the textile designer to new audiences around the world. People who were never interested in textile design or Sheila Hicks’s works wanted to own this beautiful object. The success of the book caused the Museum of Modern Art in New York to include Irma Boom’s books as part of their permanent collection.

Hicks, Sheila --- 746.07 --- (069) --- 7.05 --- Textielkunst ; weefsels ; 1956-2006 ; Sheila Hicks --- Hicks, Sheila °1934 (°Hastings, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten) --- Boekverzorging ; boekdesign ; 2006 ; Irma Boom --- Boom, Irma --- New Weaving --- Textielkunst ; textielkunstenaars --- (Musea. Collecties) --- Kunst ; het boek als kunstobject ; Kunstenaarsboeken, geïllustreerde boeken, boekbanden --- Exhibitions --- Fiberwork --- Weaving --- Warping --- Textile industry --- Fiber work --- Fibers in art --- Textile crafts --- Hicks, Sheila, --- Verenigde Staten --- 7.071 HICKS --- 745.52 --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- Hicks Sheila --- Boom Irma --- boekdesign --- boekontwerp --- kunst --- textiel --- textielkunst --- Textile --- Livre d'artiste --- Hicks, Sheila, - 1934- - Exhibitions --- Soft sculpture --- Book design --- Travail des fibres --- Tissage --- Sculpture molle --- Art textile --- Livres --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Mise en pages