Contract Magazine - March 2019 - 19

Nine must-reads for this spring

The latest crop of architecture and design books to inspire you

Off the Grid: Houses for Escape
by Dominic Bradbury
Thames & Hudson, 272 pages, $45

The Danish Chair: An International Affair
by Christian Holmsted Olesen
Strandberg Publishing: D.A.P., 336 pages, $65

Essential Modernism: Design between the World Wars
by Dominic Bradbury
Yale University Press, 480 pages, $85.00

This survey of some of the most innovative off-the-grid homes,
highlights the creative architecture and cutting-edge technologies
that are redefining where and how we live.

This substantial new book discusses the 20th-century Danish chairs,
illustrating the "golden age" of Danish furniture design, and tracing
the family relations between the chairs and showing how they
influenced each other in terms of detailing, construction, and concept.

This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work
of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the
International Style in the 1920s and '30s through the groundbreaking
practitioners of the mid-1940s. It includes sections on architecture,
interiors, graphic design, and product design, as well as profiles
of more than 70 influential creators.

Bertoia: The Metal Worker
by Beverly H. Twitchell
Phaidon, 280 pages, $95

Art Deco: The Twentieth Century's Iconic Decorative Style
from Paris, London, and Brussels to New York, Sydney,
and Santa Monica
Rizzoli, 224 pages, $45

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color
by David Coles
Thames & Hudson, 240 pages, $39.95

A celebration of the rich and varied work of Italian-born American
artist, designer, and master of metal, Harry Bertoia, this book explores
his entire career, and shows how his work is a reflection of nature
and places his art squarely at the center of American modernism.

Design as Learning: A School of Schools Reader
Edited by Jan Boelen, Nadine Botha, Vera Sacchetti
Valiz: D.A.P, 208 pages, $25
Why do design? What is design for? This reader puts forth
new proposals for design education. Interviewees include critics
like Navine G. Kahn-Dossos, Erbru Kurbak, and Pinar Yoldas,
just to name a few.

With more than 200 photographs, this book is a visual celebration
of this very popular and glamorous style, highlighting Art Deco
buildings all over the world, from Australia to South America, with an
emphasis on London, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago,
Miami, and Paris.

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow
Edited by Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk.
Foreword by Deyan Sudjic
The Design Museum, 308 pages, $49.95
This survey of the 20th century's radical visions of the home
showcases a range of projects for the future that designers produced
as they imagined new ways of living at home and on the move.

This book surveys the origin stories of more than 50 vivid color
pigments, providing a comprehensive understanding of the history of
colors, and includes a section on working with monochromatic color,
and "recipes" for paint making.

Victor Lundy: Artist Architect
by Donna Kacmar
Princeton Architectural Press, 240 pages, $55
This first book on Lundy's life and career documents his early
work in the Sarasota School of Architecture, his churches, and
his government buildings. It also includes his essays, and many
drawings, paintings, and sketches.
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