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From A to Eames: A Visual Guide to Mid-Century Modern Design
This sophisticated A to Z picture book for adults is an illustrated journey through midcentury modern design, perfect for any reader with a keen eye for style.
With eighty tales of design, laid out in a fun and easy-to-read A to Z format, design lovers will be reading this book to each other before bed. With an irreverent structure, this becomes a picture book for the refined adult. Each letter delves into one facet of this enduring era of midcentury modern homes, interior design, graphic design, and illustration, as well as the iconic personalities.
We might all recognize the names--Charles and Ray Eames, Farnsworth House, the Egg Chair, Henningsen, Elrod House, the case study houses--but what are their stories? This book delves right into the facts and does so light-heartedly. We learn of the grand inspirations, or sometimes (it turns out) the very simplest of ideas, which fueled these Goliaths of midcentury modern design. The only with your newfound design-savvy, you won't be able to look at your IKEA chairs the same way again.
If you didn't know that E stands for Eames, Egg Chair, and Elrod House (or don't know what any of those words actually mean) then this book belongs on your coffee table. And if you can't afford an Eames coffee table, then rejoice in knowing that From A to Eames makes an inexpensive and equally satisfying alternative.
With eighty tales of design, laid out in a fun and easy-to-read A to Z format, design lovers will be reading this book to each other before bed. With an irreverent structure, this becomes a picture book for the refined adult. Each letter delves into one facet of this enduring era of midcentury modern homes, interior design, graphic design, and illustration, as well as the iconic personalities.
We might all recognize the names--Charles and Ray Eames, Farnsworth House, the Egg Chair, Henningsen, Elrod House, the case study houses--but what are their stories? This book delves right into the facts and does so light-heartedly. We learn of the grand inspirations, or sometimes (it turns out) the very simplest of ideas, which fueled these Goliaths of midcentury modern design. The only with your newfound design-savvy, you won't be able to look at your IKEA chairs the same way again.
If you didn't know that E stands for Eames, Egg Chair, and Elrod House (or don't know what any of those words actually mean) then this book belongs on your coffee table. And if you can't afford an Eames coffee table, then rejoice in knowing that From A to Eames makes an inexpensive and equally satisfying alternative.
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112 pages, Hardcover
Published March 26, 2019
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July 4, 2021
Mid-century modern design
Charles and Ray Eames, 1950, "their fibreglass moulded plastic chair was the first single-shell plastic chair to be mass-produced and it changed the way people sat."
"They weren't alone in their drive for better design."
Charles and Ray Eames, 1950, "their fibreglass moulded plastic chair was the first single-shell plastic chair to be mass-produced and it changed the way people sat."
"They weren't alone in their drive for better design."
July 1, 2019
Pretty much exactly what it says it is! It felt like a good introduction for me, the illustrations are nice and info is succinct.
July 13, 2023
An interesting and quick guide to the big names and ideas of mid-century modern design. The illustrations were excellent - I wish there was one to go with every entry.
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