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Modern Retro: Living With Mid-Century Modern Style (Compact Paperbacks)

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Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small

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"Modern Retro" will inspire you to combine modern classics by names such as Eames, Jacobson, and Aalto, with flea-market finds and contemporary designs. The book begins with an introduction to key design innovations of the mid-twentietn century. Ingredients of the Retro Look explores the elements of the style: furniture, lighting, textiles and rugs, ceramics, and glass. Creating the Retro Look, the third part of the book, shows how to combine these elements to create a stylish home. -This bestselling title sold over 65,000 copies in hardcover. -By mid-century experts Neil Bingham and Andrew Weaving.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 645
EAN: 9781841728674
ISBN: 1841728675
Label: Ryland Peters & Small
Manufacturer: Ryland Peters & Small
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: 2005-07-15
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Studio: Ryland Peters & Small


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Interior Designer Gives Thumbs Down -
This book is not helpful for people serious about getting into the Fifties' look. Maybe OK for those who view it as a fad and have lots of money to spend on repros and authentic pieces at high end antique shops. It gives very little sense of real Fifties decorating and "look"; replaces stylistic information with a lot of weird photography angles; and is depressingly short of useful ideas. If you want to intersperse one or two 50s pieces in an otherwise contempory decor, this book might be helpful. I found it pitifully inadequate.

For serious Fifties afficinados or those who want genuine inspiration, I suggest instead 'Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes', by Michelle Gringeri-Brown, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Layton, Utah, 2006.
Or 'Eichler: Modernism Rebuids the American Dream'.

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