High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design, First Edition Design Book from The Whitney Museum, 1985 Vintage Design Book, Furniture deals Book

From the inside dust jacket:
Here is the first major survey of the genius of 20th-century American design, presenting the best of American furniture, industrial design, and decorative objects selected by a distinguished team of art and architectural historians.
Lavishly illustrated and expertly written, High Styles underscores the innovative and distinctive achievements of American designers of the past eight decades. Among the styles examined are American Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, Streamlined Moderne, Biomorphism, Pop, High Tech, and Post-Modernism. Among the many designers whose works are included are Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Eero Saarinen, Norman Bel Geddes, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry. Here are examples not only of such familiar and still-contemporary classics as the Eames chair, Tiffany lamps, and Mission furniture, but also Cusinarts, Apple computers, and combinations of vanguard aesthetics with deals past traditions such as Robert Venturi's Pop update of a classic Chippendale chair.
Each period is examined by an expert and is designed in the graphic style characteristic of its time. each author has an individual and sometimes unorthodox approach to the unique characteristics of his or her period, but as Lisa Phillips, curator of the major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art on which this book is based, points out in her introduction, certain assumptions are shared throughout: "that there exists an independent, inherently American design ethic which is more than a mere transplantation or adaptation of European influences; that the forms of American design express the society from which they emerge; and that there is a vital interrelationship among the fields of domestic architecture, industrial design, and decorative arts. The range of objects considered and the collage of mainstream coverage, revisionist approaches, and personal accounts reflect the hybrid character of America itself."
Beautiful, entertaining, and itself a testimony to the brilliance of American design, High Styles makes a major contribution to the understanding and appreciation of the look of our time.
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Book, with 212 pages, remains in good condition despite a minor rip on the upper spine of dust jacket (see photos).

Measurements
11 1/4" tall
11" wide
3/4" deep

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