The Modernist Home

The Modernist Home

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Book Description
The Modernist house dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, overhauling the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light, and providing balconies and terraces. In The Modernist Home, art professor and curator Tim Benton examines its elements, from the technology that provided central heating and electric lighting, to new construction materials like concrete and steel, to features like winter gardens and folding furniture. He opens the door on Modernist houses around the world, including Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye and Kocher and Fry's Weekend House on Long Island, all fully illustrated with color photographs and plans.

About the Author
Tim Benton is professor of art history at Britain's Open University. He has co-curated exhibitions including Thirties: British Art and Design Before the War and Art and Power, and is joint editor of Art Deco 1910-1939. Benton lives in Cambridge, England.

The Modernist Home,Tim Benton,Victoria and Albert Museum,1851774769,Architecture,Design - General,Domestic,Interior Design,Interior Design - General,Residential Buildings Architecture,Architecture / Interior Design,History Of Art / Art & Design Styles

Book Contents:

1. The Ocean of the Soul: Men, the World and God in the Stories of Farid Al-Din Attar (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik)
2. The Old Testament in Syriac: According to the Peshitta Version (Song of Songs Sample Edition)
3. The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
4. The Thousand and One Nights
5. The V&A Book of Western Ornament
6. Tiling and Mosaics in a Weekend (In a Weekend)
7. Time and Mind: The History of a Philosophical Problem (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
8. Time and Space in Chinese Culture (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 33)
9. Time-Life Book of Home Design Techniques
10. Traast & Gruson: Frame Monographs of Contemporary Interior Architects

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