Product Description: An abundantly illustrated overview of modern design across continents and cultures, highlighting key movements and design traditions.A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the turn of the twenty-first century...read more

Looks at the history of design from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Product Description: Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts. Starting with the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America we progress through European and American Art Noveau, the Weiner Werkstatte based on Vienna, the De Stijl movement centred in Holland, the Bauhaus emanating from Germany, and ending with the Art Deco movement throughout Europe and America...read more

Product Description: An abundantly illustrated overview of modern design across continents and cultures, highlighting key movements and design traditions.A unique cross-disciplinary survey of design history, A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present offers a concise overview of the modern milestones of architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, and photography from the Crystal Palace of 1851 to the iPhone at the turn of the twenty-first century...read more

Examines the lives and work of pioneering women, such as Vanessa Bell, Sonia Delaunay, and Elsie de Wolfe, whose textile tableware, and furniture designs made important contributions to the industry of interior design

Examines the lives and work of pioneering women, such as Vanessa Bell, Sonia Delaunay, and Elsie de Wolfe, whose textile tableware, and furniture designs made important contibutions to the industry of interior design