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Synopsis
A valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and enthusiasts, this book chronicles the development of modern interior design in the United States in the 1930s. With detailed descriptions and more than 200 archival images, design historian Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than 100 interiors by 50 designers and architects, including work by design luminaries Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Cedric Gibbons, William Lescaze, Tommi Parzinger, Eugene Schoen, Walter Dorwin...
About the Author
Marilyn F. Friedman is a design historian whose work focuses on the development and popularisation of modern design across America during the 1920s and 30s. Born and educated in New York, Friedman studied design history at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, earning a Master of Arts degree, which led to her first publication, Selling Good Design: Promoting the Early Modern Interior (Rizzoli, 2003)....
Review
...lawyer turned historian Marilyn Friedman uncovers the beauty and intellect that propelled America from style imitator to innovator during the worst economic downturn in American record. (Surface Mag)
Here is the definitive scholarly chronicle of how it all happened. (Cara Greenberg 1st Dibs)
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- PublisherBauer and Dean Publishers
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0983863237
- ISBN 13 9780983863236
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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