Crafting a Modern World

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 Noemi 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.

ISBN	1568985835	Pages	364
ISBN13	9781568985831 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Princeton Architectural Press	Weight (grammes)	1733
Imprint	Princeton Architectural Press	Published in	New York
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	279
Publication date	29 Sep 2006	Width (mm)	216
Library of Congress	2006008907	Spine width (mm)	36
DEWEY	720.922	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

		Foreword : belated recognition by Kenneth Frampton		9
		Introduction : rediscovering Antonin and Noemi Raymond by Kurt G. F. Helfrich and Mari Sakamoto Nakahara		13
		Antonin Raymond and the modern movement : a Czech perspective by Christine Vendrebi-Auzanneau		31
		Antonin Raymond in America, 1938-49 by Kurt G. F. Helfrich		45
		Characters of concrete by Ken Tadashi Oshima		65
		Portfolio by William Whitaker and Ken Tadashi Oshima		79
		Chronology of the Raymond's lives and careers by William Whitaker		265
		Selected writings by Antonin and Noemi Raymond		277
		Selected correspondence of Antonin and Noemi Raymond by Lutun, Anne		313
		List of buildings and projects, 1917-73 by William Whitaker		341

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