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Page 66
... look , the machine look , and the handcrafted look . It is a rare piece of Mid - Century Modern furniture that does not display one of these influences to some degree . THE BIOMORPHIC LOOK Most obviously Fifties and perhaps most fun. The ...
... look , the machine look , and the handcrafted look . It is a rare piece of Mid - Century Modern furniture that does not display one of these influences to some degree . THE BIOMORPHIC LOOK Most obviously Fifties and perhaps most fun. The ...
Page 67
... LOOK Most obviously Fifties and perhaps most fun in retro- spect is furniture with biomorphic tendencies ( dictionary defined as " evoking images of biological organisms without representing any specific organisms " ) . Thanks to new ...
... LOOK Most obviously Fifties and perhaps most fun in retro- spect is furniture with biomorphic tendencies ( dictionary defined as " evoking images of biological organisms without representing any specific organisms " ) . Thanks to new ...
Page 72
... look was most acceptable to the general public . It was easier to understand than either the avant - garde biomorphic approach or the machine look , which many claimed to find cold and clinical . The result was an explosion of interest ...
... look was most acceptable to the general public . It was easier to understand than either the avant - garde biomorphic approach or the machine look , which many claimed to find cold and clinical . The result was an explosion of interest ...
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aluminum Alvar Aalto American architect architecture Arne Jacobsen Arts Décoratifs Bauhaus biomorphic Breuer Brooklyn Museum cabinet Carlo Mollino CHAIR/GEORGE CHAIRS/CHARLES Charles Eames Château Dufresne coffee table colors curves Danish decade Décoratifs de Montréal decoration DePree Eames's early Eero Saarinen Fifties Finn Juhl foam Formica free-form French Fritz Hansen furni furnishings furniture design George Nelson Giò Ponti glass Hans Wegner Herman Miller interior Isamu Noguchi Italian Kjaerholm Knoll International laminated lamp late 40s leather legs light Liliane Stewart Collection living room lounge manufacturing Mark Meachem materials metal Mid-Century Modern Modern Art modern furniture Musée des Arts Museum of Modern pedestal Philadelphia Museum Photo pieces plastic shell popular postwar produced Ray Eames rosewood Scandinavian sculptural seat shapes shell chairs sofa stacking Street-Porter Street-Porter/Downtown style taste tubular steel ture U.S. Distributor uphol upholstered upholstery Vladimir Kagan Wegner Wendell Lovett wire Womb chair wood wrought iron York
References to this book
Twentieth-century Furniture: Materials, Manufacture, and Markets Clive Edwards No preview available - 1994 |