Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond by Kurt Helfrich & William Whitaker (Editors), Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Christine Vendredi-Auzanneau, Ann Luton, Kenneth Frampton (Foreword)
ISBN: 1568985835 EAN: 9781568985831
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Binding: Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2006
Pub Date: October 01, 2006
Physical Info: 1.38" H x 11.5" L x 9.25" W (3.81 lbs) 352 pages
There appears to be no end in sight to the ongoing love affair with mid-century modern design. Still, it's curious that we keep hearing the same names again and again while so much inspiring work waits for its "moment" to be discovered. Antonin and Noémi Raymond are now ready for their close-up. Crafting a Modern World is the first comprehensive book in English on the duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966. Best known for a series of finely detailed structures built in Japan during the 1930s, the Raymonds had prolific careers that embraced designs from factories, office buildings, churches, and schools to furniture, fabrics, and graphic design.
Kurt Helfrich is curator of the Architecture and Design Collection at the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.
William Whitaker is chief curator and collections manager at the University of Pennsylvania's Architectural Archives.
