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AMERICAN ART DECO: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY by Leonard and Glassgold Reprint of the 1931 ANNUAL OF AMERICAN DESIGN 176 pages and over 200 � b/w � illustrations [American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen] R. L. Leonard, � and C. A. Glassgold [Editors]: AMERICAN ART DECO: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY. New York: Dover, 2004 [Reprint edition of � ANNUAL OF AMERICAN DESIGN 1931. New York: Ives Washburn, 1930]. A fine softcover book in decorated, stiff wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 8.75 x 11.75 � softcover book, with 176 pages and over 200 � b/w � illustrations, diagrams, etc. covering all aspects of the American Industrial Design of the late 1920s into the early 1930s, courtesy of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen. Original essays published in this volume include: Kem Weber: the Modern Shop Norman Bel Geddes: Business interiors Paul T. Frankl: the Home of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Frank Lloyd Wright: � Principles of Design Hugh Ferriss: the Real Traditions of Architecture M. F. Agha: Moderns and Modernists Edward Steichen: Commercial Photography Lewis Mumford: Culture and Machine Art Lee Simonson: New Methods, New Materials Richard Bach: the Resurgence of Quality C. Adolph Glassgold: Design in America Designers and artists represented in the individual sections of this volume: THE SHOP: Kem Weber, Holabird and Root, J. R. Davidson, Thompson and Churchill, Howe and Lescaze, W. Reiss, V. Hagopian, Jock D. Peters. THE HOME: Paul Frankl, Willis Harrison, Gilbert Rohde, Donald Deskey, Frances Miller, Howe and Lescaze, Hugo Gnam, A. Drexler Jacobson, Paul M. Zimmermann, Eugene Schoen, Leon Carroll and Jacques Darcy, Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann, Kem Weber, Shepard Vogelgesang, Alexander Kachinsky, Lee Simonson, Ellen Kern, Winold Reiss, Lucian Bernhard, Lloyd Wright. TEXTILES: Ruth Reeves, Teresa Kilham, Helen Dryden, Ilonka Karasz, Robert Leonard, Jennie Greene, Donald Deskey, Eduard Buk Ulreich, Lydia Rahlson, Henriette � Reiss, Gilbert Rohde, Vally Wieselthier, Alice Donaldson, Dorothy Trout, Marguerita Mergentime, Mary � Bendelari, Robert Schey, Kneeland Green, Lucian Bernhard. NEW MATERIALS: A. D. Jacobsen, Walter Von Nessen, Erik Magnussen, Alexander Kachinsky, Hermann Rosse, Austin Purves, Frank Sohn, Raymond Hood, Frederick Kielser, Egmont Arens, Norman Bel Geddes, Paul Frankl, A. Drexler Jacobson, Alice Donaldson. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann, Gilbert Rohde, Norman Bel Geddes, Thompson and Churchill, � Joseph Sinel, Paul Lobel, Walter Kantack, Walter Von Nessen, Donald Deskey, Wlater Dorwin Teague, Julius Mihalik, A. Drexler jacobson, Robert Leonard, Gustav jensen, Walter Von Nessen, Peter Larsen, Erik Magnussen, Robert Locher, paul Lobel, Gus Bundy, Bernard Fischer, Helen Dryden, Alfonso Ianelli, Ellen Kern, Teresa Kilham. ARCHITECTURE: Thompson and Churchill, Raymond Hood, Corbett harrison & Macmurray, Norman Bel Geddes, Albert Kahn, Ely Jacques Kahn, Howe and Lescaze, Frederick Kiesler, Lloyd Wright. HALLS, WALLS and FITTINGS: Paul Frankl, Eugene Schoen, William Muschenheim, Joseph Urban, Winold Reiss, George Switzer, Ilonka Karasz, Joseph Sinel, Rockwell Kent, kem Weber, Howe and Lescaze. GRAPHIC ARTS IN ADVERTISING: George Switzer, Jospeh Sinel, Witold Gordon, Lewis White, Oscar Wentz, Henriette Reiss, Robert Leonard, Gustav Jensen, Lucian Bernhard, Jacob Asanger, Eduard Buk Ulreich. COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Edward Steichen, Nickolas Murray, Sara Parsons, Hi Williams, Emilie Danielson, Arthur Gerlach, Will Connell, Kem Weber. A note about this Dover edition: Pages are sewn in signatures, in the method traditionally used for the best books, and will not drop out, as often happens with paperbacks held together with glue. Binding will not crack or split. Please visit my Ebay store � for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases... read more

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