| Description |
1 online resource (606 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; The Beginnings; Kahn's Industry; Pure Design; Cranbrook Academy of Art; Modernizing the American Lifestyle; The Automobile and Design; The Perfect Storm; Automobility for All; Where Today Meets Tomorrow; Michigan, Modernism, and Suburbia; The Car and What Came of It; Modern Design and Home Furnishings; Grand Rapids Furniture and Mass-Produced Modernism; Threads; Alexander Girard; George Nakashima and the Widdicomb Furniture Company; Competition, Collaboration, and Connection; Interview with Ruth Adler Schnee, Textile Designer; The Knoll Look. |
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Modernizing RecreationPlastic Fantastic; Interview with Jim Miller-Melberg, Artist; Michigan's Modern Architecture Legacy; Alden B. Dow; A Usonian Michigan; Eero Saarinen; A Challenge to the Future; An Extraordinary Workshop; Serenity and Delight; Ralph Rapson; Interview with Gunnar Birkerts, Architect; Balthazar Korab; Michigan's Influence; Import-Export; Conversations and Convergences; Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America Exhibition Retrospective; Selected Bibliography; Contributors. |
| Summary |
Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan's architecture and design heritage. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Design -- Michigan.
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Design. |
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Michigan. |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Michigan.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Conway, Brian D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arnold, Amy L. Michigan Modern : Design that Shaped America. Newburyport : Gibbs Smith, ©2016 9781423644972 |
| ISBN |
9781423644989 (electronic book) |
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1423644980 (electronic book) |
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9781423644972 |
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1423644972 |
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