Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home Tapa dura - 2017

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New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 260 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of “good design” and “better living” to an extensive middle-class American readership. Her innovative magazine-sponsored initiatives, including House Beautiful’s Pace Setter House Program and the Climate Control Project, popularized a “livable” and decidedly American version of postwar modern architecture. Gordon’s devotion to what she called the American Style attracted the attention of Frank Lloyd Wright, who became her ally and collaborator. Gordon’s editorial programs reshaped ideas about American living and, by extension, what consumers bought, what designers made, and what… Leer más

Yale University Press. Used - Very Good. 2017. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Decorative Arts).

Yale University Press. New. 2017. Hardcover. Dust Jacket is Fine. In publisher's shrinkwrap. New.

Hardcover. New.

Yale Univ Pr, 2017. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 11.50x8.50x1.00 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.