There appears to be no end in sight to the ongoing love affair with mid-century modern design. Still, it's curious that we keep hearing the same names again and again while so much inspiring work waits for its "moment" to be discovered. Antonin and Nomi Raymond are now ready for their close-up. Crafting a Modern World is the first comprehensive book in English on the duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966. Best known for a series of finely detailed structures built in Japan during the 1930s, the Raymonds ...
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There appears to be no end in sight to the ongoing love affair with mid-century modern design. Still, it's curious that we keep hearing the same names again and again while so much inspiring work waits for its "moment" to be discovered. Antonin and Nomi Raymond are now ready for their close-up. Crafting a Modern World is the first comprehensive book in English on the duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966. Best known for a series of finely detailed structures built in Japan during the 1930s, the Raymonds had prolific careers that included designs for factories, of ce buildings, churches, and schools as well as furniture, fabrics, and graphic design. The Raymonds combined their European modern roots with the vernacular craft traditions they discovered in regions as diverse as Japan, India, and rural Pennsylvania. They also collaborated with some of the twentieth century's leading thinkers and artists, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Cass Gilbert, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, and Fernand Lger. Inspired by the conventions of traditional Japanese buildings, they brought a high level of attention to craft to all their work, from churches in Chicago and Karuizawa to the Tokyo Tennis Club, the Pacific Cable Company Station in Guam, the Golconde Dormitory in India, and houses throughout the northeastern U.S., including their own modernist interventions at a rural farmhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Four essays round out this thorough examination of the Raymonds' careersa missing and enchanting chapter in the history of mid-century modern design.
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Good in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderately edgeworn wtih a few small edge-tears, but is overall clean and glossy, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light overall wear to the boards, but with a 4" x 1" watermark to the cloth along the left edge; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 3.9 lbs; Tan dust jacket with architectural photo, and title in white lettering; 2007, Princeton Architectural Press; 352 pages; "Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and NoTmi Raymond, " by Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, et al.
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine Plus jacket. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., any signs of handling are in the negligible category. clean. no writing, markings, labels. no tears, clips, chips. strong binding. a great copy.; english text.; 364pp., illustrated throughout in color and b/w. several essays by various contributors. writings by the raymonds. chronology. correspondence.
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