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What Is Modern Design?

by Edgar Kaufmann. 32 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Edgar Kaufmann

Publisher:

   The Museum of Modern Art

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1950
Subjects:   Design, Industrial
Table of contents
CONTENTS
John Hay Whitney , Chairman of the Board; Henry Allen Moe , ; Philip L. Goodwin , 2nd Vice-Chairman; Nelson A. Rockefeller , ; Mrs. David M. Levy , ; Sam A. Lewisohn , : John E. Abbott , Alfred H. Barr , Jr., Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss , William A. M. Burden , Stephen C. Clark , Rene d'Harnoncourt , Mrs. Edsel B. Ford , A. Conger Goodyear , Mrs. Simon Guggenheim , Wallace K. Harrison , James W. Husted , Mrs. Albert D. Lasker , Mrs. Henry R. Luce , Ranald H. Macdonald , Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller , William S. Paley , Mrs. E. B. Parkinson , Mrs. Charles S. Payson , Andrew Carnduff Ritchie , David Rockefeller , Beardsley Ruml , James Thrall Soby , Edward M. M. Warburg , Monroe Wheeler
Introductory Note 5
What is Design? 5
What is Modern Design? 7
What is Good Design? 9
Furniture 10
Textiles 16
Pottery 20
Glass 23
Lamps 27
Metal Ware 30
Recommended Reading on Modern Design 32
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Book by Paul Betts; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Design, Industrial--Germany--History
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Paul Betts, the Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design
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Design
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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