Eileen Gray: Objects and Furniture Design: By Architects Series Tapa dura - 2013

Ediciones Polígrafa, 2013-04-30. hardcover. Acceptable. 6x0x8. Slight damp stain to upper edge/corner

Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2013. First edition. A near fine copy with some very minor edgewear to boards. 8.25 x 6.5 inches. 128 pages. Profusely illustrated in color; pictorial boards. "Neglected in her lifetime, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early twentieth century. She first worked as a lacquer artist, then as a furniture designer and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost exclusively male and adherents to one movement or another, Gray remained stalwartly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working; Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by International Style designers such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies van der Rohe. Her voluptuous leather and steel Bibendum Chair and chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table are now familiar icons of modernity. Part of the By… Leer más

Ediciones Polígrafa, April 2013. Hardcover. Used - Good.

Ediciones Polígrafa, 2013. New in shrink wrap. No dust jacket as issued. . Boards. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

D. A. P. (Distribution). New. 2013. Hardcover. 8434312654 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 124 pages; many illustrations including a number in color. -- with a bonus offer-- .