Design
Publisher: Florence : Scala, 2009Description: 672p. ill. [chiefly col.] 29cm001: 13035ISBN: 9788881178254Subject(s): Product design | Lighting | Kitchen utensils | Furniture design | Household appliances | Consumer electronics | Fashion design | Design history | AutomobilesDDC classification: 745.444 DESItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reference Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 745.444 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 094440 |
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745.444 BRO Avantgarde design 1880-1930 | 745.444 COL Towards post-modernism: design since 1851 | 745.444 COL Towards post-modernism: design since 1851 | 745.444 DES Design | 745.444 FER History of design from the Victorian era to the present: a survey of the modern style in architecture, interior design, industrial design, graphic design, and photography | 745.444 FRI Total living / | 745.444 SPA New design source book |
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There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman....Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinction that raises an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artists!' With these words Walter Gropius concluded his prologue to the Manifesto establishing the Bauhaus in Weimar in April 1919. This marks the greatest moment in European Rationalism and the birth of modern design as we understand it. Arts and crafts schools had gradually spread across Europe against the background of increasing industrialization following the emergence of industrial design in the nineteenth century. But it was the extraordinary hothouse of talent and ideas in the Bauhaus that led to the assertion of the role of art in every detail of domestic life, making it accessible to everyone. The growing sophistication of the process of production together with the rapid and alluring expansion of markets contributed to the diffusion of design. Form and function of the highest quality was the aim in the mass production at a reasonable cost of all sorts of objects, machines, furniture and tools. And now, more than ever, design is everything.
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