Main entry:

Hanks, David A.

Title & Author:

American streamlined design : the world of tomorrow / David A. Hanks and Anne Hoy.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Paris : Flammarion, ©2005.

Description:

279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design."
"Catalogue for the traveling exhibition of the same name, which will open in France in May 2005 and travel to several venues in North America through 2009"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275) and index.
"To grace the finest desk" : streamlining the commercial world -- "Power at your fingertips" : streamlining manual labor -- "Amazing appliances" : streamlining the kitchen and bath -- "Flash-and-gleam beauty" : streamlining the living space -- "Won't you have fun" : streamlining recreation -- The world of tomorrow, today : streamlining now.

Summary:

"The twentieth century loved machines and the speed they made possible. Speeding cars, trains, and planes promised to conquer space and time; their aerodynamic styling and metal skins embodied a new and modern beauty, one that especially enchanted American designers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Streamlining became the popular American style for all sorts of objects: from toy scooters to typewriters, from power tools to teakettles." "This book celebrates this beauty as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Kem Weber, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, as well as in works by many lesser-known industrial designers whose products are presented here for the first time. The book also demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present." "This volume is illustrated with patent drawings and period photographs showing how these dynamically styled objects were used. The one hundred eighty objects presented here, drawn from the Eric Brill Collection (recently donated to the American Friends of Canada) and supplemented by pieces from the Stewart Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, were photographed for this book. A full bibliography, biographies of the designers, and index complete the study."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

2080304992 (hbk.)
9782080304995 (hbk.)

Subject:

Design 2016
Design United States History 20th century.
Design United States Exhibitions.
Aerodynamics.
Aerodynamics Exhibitions.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Design États-Unis Expositions.
Aérodynamique Expositions.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Aérodynamique.
aerodynamics.
Design.
Stromlinienform
Design industriel.
Histoire.
20e siècle.
United States.
USA
États-Unis.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Boulogne-Billancourt 2005.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ausstellung (Boulogne-Billancourt, 2005)

Added entries:

Hoy, Anne H.
Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design.

World of tomorrow

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241026
Call No.: BIB 170938
Status: Available