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5.0 out of 5 stars About This Book..., October 11, 2009
This review is from: Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885-1945 (Paperback)
A big, handsome, square trade paperback, 352 pp on heavy paper.

About 375-400 illustrations, about half b&w and half color. Checklist of Objects, Index, over 20 pp of bibliographic information.

10 Essays, including:

"Traditions Transformed: Romantic Nationalism in Design, 1890-1920" by Wendy Kaplan
"The Decorative Arts in Amsterdam 1890-1930" by Ellinoor Bergvelt
"Domesticating Modernity: Ambivalance and Appropriation, 1920-1940" by Jeffery L. Meikle

"Forging Modern Italy: From Wrought Iron to Aluminim" by Irene de Guttry and Maria Paola Maino
"Political Things: Design in Fascist Italy" by Dennis P. Doordan
"Design in Inter-War Germany" by John Heskett
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