"With over 1,000 illustrations."

Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-538) and index.

Introduction -- I. Media and Masters -- Furniture -- 'Collecting Mid-century design' / Richard Wright -- 'Scandinavian furniture: Mid-century phenomenon' / Judith Gura -- Eero Aarnio -- Harry Bertoia -- Joe Colombo -- Robin Day -- Charles & Ray Eames -- Arne Jacobsen -- Poul Kjærholm -- Carlo Mollino -- George Nakashima -- George Nelson -- Verner Panton -- Pierre Paulin -- Warren Platner -- Gio Ponti -- Jean Prouvé -- Ernest Race -- Jens Risom -- Sergio Rodrigues -- Eero Saarinen -- Joaquim Tenreiro -- Hans Wegner -- Edward Wormley -- Lighting -- 'Lighting design in Italy' / Alberto Bassi -- Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni -- Poul Henningsen -- Le Klint -- Vico Magistretti -- Serge Mouille -- Isamu Noguchi -- Jean Royère -- Gino Sarfatti -- Glass and ceramics -- 'Glass design: Post-1945 transatlantic aesthetics' / Joy McCall -- 'Mid-century ceramics' / Alun Graves -- Hans Coper -- Kaj Franck -- Gustavsberg Pottery (Wilhelm Kåg, Stig Lindberg & Berndt Friberg) -- Vicke Lindstrand -- Gertrud & Otto Natzler -- Lucie Rie -- Axel Salto -- Timo Sarpaneva -- Paolo Venini -- Russel Wright -- Textiles -- 'Utility to contemporary: Texiles in the mid-century home' / Daniel Heath -- 'Artist-designed textiles: 1945-1970' / Sue Prichard -- Florence Broadhurst -- Lucienne Day -- Josef Frank -- Alexander Girard -- David Hicks -- Jack Lenor Larsen -- Marimekko -- Product and industrial design -- 'From computers to corporate identity: Cold War-era design' / Jana Scholze -- 'Mid-century product design in Germany' / Klaus Klemp -- Corradino d'Ascanio -- Kenneth Grange -- Alec Issigonis -- Jacob Jensen -- Raymond Loewy -- David Mellor -- Marcello Nizzoli -- Dieter Rams -- Richard Sapper & Marco Zanuso -- Ettore Sottsass -- Graphics and posters -- 'Mid-century confluences: Type, design and technology' / Steven Heller -- 'The travel poster in the mid-century' / Sophie Churcher -- Saul Bass -- Max Bill & Otl Aicher -- Wim Crouwel -- Alan Fletcher -- Adrian Frutiger -- Abram Games -- Charley Harper -- Jock Kinneir & Margaret Calvert -- Herbert Matter -- Max Miedinger -- Paul Rand -- II. Houses and interiors -- 'Collecting the mid-century house' / Matt Gibberd -- 'On restoring modernism: The purist and the pragmatist' / Michael Boyd -- Alvar Aalto: Maison Louis Carré, France -- Lina Bo Bardi: Glass House, Brazil -- Antonio Bonet: La Ricarda, Spain -- Marcel Breuer: Stillman House II, USA -- Charles Deaton: Sculptured House, USA -- Craig Ellwood: Palevsky House, USA -- Andrew Geller: Frank House, USA -- Jakob Halldor Gunnløgsson House, Denmark -- Charles Gwathmey: Gwathmey House & Studio, USA -- Philip Johnson: Glass House, USA -- John Lautner: Elrod House, USA -- Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Millán House, Brazil -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House, USA -- Richard Neutra: Kaufmann Desert House, USA -- Oscar Niemeyer: Strick House, USA -- Bruce Rickard: Marshall House, Australia -- Harry Seidler: Rose Seidler House, Australia -- Alison & Peter Smithson: Upper Lawn Pavilion, UK -- Basil Spence: Spence House, UK -- Arthur Witthoefft: Witthoefft Hosue, USA -- III. A-Z of designers and makers.

This definitive survey of one of the most popular collectible and dynamic periods of international design offers a rich overview of all aspects of the subject. Mid-century furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, textiles, product design, industrial design, graphics, and posters are covered, as are interior design and architecture, exemplifying post-war optimism and energy, use of innovative and affordable materials and forms of mass manufacture, and newly developed precepts of "good design."-- Source other than Library of Congress.