The Design Encyclopedia [Hardcover]

Mel Byars (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 1994

This definitive encyclopedia covers all elements associated with decoration and design in eastern and western Europe, Australia, North and South America and Japan. Over 3000 entries form a compendium of designers, firms, movements, styles and materials in the design world from the 19th century to the present. Features lists of major design exhibitions and fairs worldwide, ranging from the 1851 Great Exhibition in London through the 1992 Seville Expo to a Pan-Russian Exhibition in Moscow in 1882. Every entry includes dates, biography, details of design education and influences, exhibitions and awards, an in-depth discussion of important designs plus a complete bibliography covering publications in all languages.

Editorial Reviews

Review

…the invaluable reference resource for any design library. -- Interior Design September 2004 --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 612 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (August 12, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471024554
• ISBN-13: 978-0471024552
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.7 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,802,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars At second glance, February 7, 2006

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Valerie J. (West Yorks, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Design Encyclopedia, The (Hardcover)

When I first received this, I fanned through it and was disappointed. I was expecting to see huge glossy photographs of fantastic works of art and all I could see was a whole lot of text. I set it aside. Later, I opened it again and this time I went through it more slowly. I was wrong. The images are smaller than I had anticipated but the book is filled with them and the text is informative. It's a great, good quality, well presented reference book. I'm glad to have it on my bookshelf.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference work, June 5, 2009

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F. G. Naerebout (Leiden, Holland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Design Encyclopedia, The (Hardcover)

This is a marvellous work of reference: there is a large number of well-illustrated entries on individuals and institutions that have played an important part in 'design' (applied arts, and architecture and other arts when in a close relationship to the applied arts) for the past one and a half century. If this kind of thing interests you, this encyclopedia is a must. But it is also a pleasure to browse, and find out that those chairs and lampshades and I don't know what that you have seen so often and taken for granted are the product of some individual's creativity. This book can open your eyes to the wealth of design that is not only in museums but everywhere around you.