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Design for the Corporate World 1950-1975

  • ISBN-13: 9781848221949
  • Publisher: LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD
    Imprint: LUND HUMPHRIES PUBLISHERS LTD
  • By Wim de Wit
  • Price: AUD $138.00
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2017
  • Format: Hardback (290.00mm X 240.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 1260g
  • Categories: The arts: general issues [AB]
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Wim de Wit is an adjunct curator of architecture and design at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, USA. Trained as an architectural historian, he has been active as an architecture curator in Amsterdam, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and has organized numerous exhibitions in each of these cities.
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Claiming Room for Creativity: The Corporate Designer and IDCA, by Wim de Wit; Establishment Modernism and Its Discontents: The IDCA in the 'Long Sixties', by Greg Castillo; Building Modernist But Not Quite: Corporate Design in the Postwar Suburb, by Louise Mozingo; Design Education at Stanford: The Formative Years, by Steven McCarthy; Color Plates of Major Objects; Biographies of Major Designers and
Descriptions of Major Corporations; Index
'a handsomely designed book that looks in depth at a critical moment in design history... an important addition to the literature of design.' 
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