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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.

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"Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The book's essays, featuring copious new research, offer in-depth analysis of more than 50 individual designs and architectural projects, accompanied by both period and new photographs. Born in Ireland and educated in London, Gray proceeded to Paris where she opened a textile studio, studied the Japanese craft of lacquer that would become a primary technique in her design work, and owned and directed the influential gallery and store known as "Jean Désert." Gray struggled for acceptance as a largely self-taught woman in male-dominated professions. Although she is now best known for her furniture, lighting, and carpets, she dedicated herself to many architectural and interior projects that were both personal and socially driven, including the Villa E 1027, the iconic modern house designed with Jean Badovici, as well as economical and demountable projects, such as the Camping Tent"--Provided by publisher.

Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs --- Design / Decorative Arts --- Gray, Eileen, --- Women designers --- Women architects --- Interior decoration --- History --- Architecture --- Design --- Gray, Kathleen Eileen Moray, --- kunst --- fotografie --- 745.071 GRAY --- 749.071 GRAY --- 747.071 GRAY --- 7.071 GRAY --- 72.071 GRAY --- textielkunst --- textiel --- lakwerk --- lak --- Frankrijk --- Ierland --- Groot-Brittannië --- schilderkunst --- architectuur --- twintigste eeuw --- Gray Eileen --- meubelkunst --- meubilair --- productdesign --- design --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Exhibitions --- 72 GRAY --- 72.039 --- 72.036 --- 725.91 --- 725.91 Tentoonstellingsgebouwen. Expositiehallen --- Tentoonstellingsgebouwen. Expositiehallen --- 72.036 Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 749.07 --- 72.07 --- Gray, Eileen 1878-1976 (°Brownshood, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ierland) --- Vrouwelijke architecten --- Interieurarchitectuur ; meubeldesign ; 20ste eeuw ; Eileen Gray --- Meubelontwerpers ; designers ; interieurarchitecten A - Z --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Gray, Eileen --- Gray, Eileen, - 1878-1976 - Exhibitions --- Gray, Eileen, - 1878-1976