Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Pelican Books)
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Product Description
This is a book on artists and architects from Britain, USA and Europe and how the best remains today where laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2046597 in Books
- Published on: 1961-01-30
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Essential for anyone interested in the roots of modern design." -- Met Home
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"[An] excellent and now classic introduction to modern design and twentieth-century modernism. . . ."-Christopher Menz, Australian Book Review (Australian Book Review )
About the Author
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) was a professor of history of art and architecture at Birkbeck College, University of London. Along with Pioneers of Modern Design, he wrote and edited the classic series Buildings of England.


