| Design in British Industry: A Mid-Century Survey Contributor(s): Farr, Michael (Author), Pevsner, Nikolaus (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 052117595X ISBN-13: 9780521175951 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $61.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art |
| Dewey: 745.209 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 7" W x 10" (1.74 lbs) 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book, written in 1952, examines the intrinsic design everyday household objects. It evaluates them, criticizes them, and investigates the difficulties encountered in producing them, marketing them, and advancing them. At the root of the author's mind is a conviction in the importance of effective design of these items despite methods of mass-production, which he believes should involve the same kind of devotion as has always inspired freelance craftsmen. Professor Pevsner, who initiated such a book in 1935, provides a foreword and a postscript of commentary about Mr Farr's book. The book is accompanied by a number of photographs of the products it discusses and will be of interest to designers of everyday objects and to those who use them. |