Take a detailed look at the exciting and highly collectible modern furniture of the 1950s--furniture created by renowned designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi, and Eero Saarinen, and produced by companies such as Herman Miller, Knoll, and Heywood-Wakefield. Included in this new and improved second edition are over 450 color and vintage black and white photographs bearing detailed captions for all the classic designs, plus accessories, 70 designer biographies and company histories, a construction case study, a source list, bibliography, values, and an index. This single volume is an invaluable reference.
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Leslie Pia is the head of the Interior Design department at Ursuline College in Ohio. She has written seven additional books on designers, furniture, glassware, and pottery, from Fifties Glass to Designed & Signed.
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not the best,
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This review is from: Fifties Furniture (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Hardcover)
Found this very hasty in some sections---lazy writing and editing in one place (pages 148-171). They just reprinted an old Stow and Davis office furniture catalog without giving values though they advertise on the cover that they will give values. This is not the first Schiffer book that has done this kind of cheap content padding. I would not buy another Schiffer Book, in fact, without really checking it out for padding. Also glaring omissions in content. The chair section has not one mention of the Wassily chair by Breuer/Knoll. Save your money and try another book.
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This review is from: Fifties Furniture (Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Hardcover)
This is the best 50's furnature book by far! Pina knows this eara 100%.. Great pictures! From Eames to Miller. My book has drewl all over it!
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