Modernist Design

An authoritative survey of the 20th century’s defining movement in design and the applied arts. Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are among the designers and architects featured in this wide-ranging survey of modernist design. Exploring how technological innovation and new aesthetic and philosophical frameworks revolutionized the built environment in the first half of the twentieth century, the book reveals how modernism transformed our living spaces and lifestyles, and fundamentally changed the way we think about design. The book’s scope is unprecedented. Sections on furniture, lighting, ceramics and glass, industrial and product design, graphics and posters, houses and interiors, as well as profiles of seventy influential creators, are complemented by more than 600 illustrations, offering a richly visual, thoroughly comprehensive overview of every aspect of modernist design.