Modern Retro : Living with Mid-Century Modern Style
Weaving, Andrew, Bingham, Neil, Wood, Andrew
ISBN 10: 1841728675 ISBN 13: 9781841728674
Published by Ryland Peters & Small, 2006
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Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 8628584-75
Synopsis:
In recent years, mid-20th-century modern furniture, ceramics, glass, and textiles have become hugely popular among people who appreciate the stylish contribution that these pieces make to today's home. Modern Retro will inspire you to create a look that combines classics by such visionaries as the Eameses, Bertoia, and Aalto with thrift-store finds and the best contemporary design. Created by modern classics dealer Andrew Weaving and design commentator Nell Bingham, with photography by Andrew Wood, Modern Retro is not about slavishly recreating a period feel. Instead, it shows how to take the best designs of the 1920s through the 1970s and use them throughout your home in a relaxed and individual way. Past and present can sit stylishly together -- allowing you to make the most of the gloriously eclectic forms, colors, and patterns available.
From the Publisher:
Genuinely stylish: great images & witty informative text
Ignore the competition this is THE book on modern retro and will inspire you to create a stylish individual home that combines modern classics with junk-shop finds and the best of contemporary design.
From the reviews:
"Sit back with Modern Retro, a paean to all things lovely from the 30s to the 70s. It has all the Eames, Jacobsen and Aalto you could want, and advice on where to get it and put it. Its authors are Eames experts: Andrew Weaving runs Century, that elegant Marylebone gallery, and Neil Bingham curates the dusty vaults of the RIBA Drawings Collection, and, coincidence alert, is one of two current mid-century modern gurus to hail from Winnipeg." The Guardian
Book of the Week in the Evening Standard: "Here's a new book that shows you how to incorporate retro elements from the 1920s through to the 1970s into your 21st century home without looking over the top"
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Modern Retro : Living with Mid-Century ...
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good