27 results for "1930s -Today / Designer" between $10.00 and $600.00

of Pforzheim, First organized in 1907 by Florntin Grosse (1878 - 1953) and Heinrich Henkel (1876 - 1941), and produced gold settings for the jewelry trade. After the First World War, the company reorganized under Grosse's sons Artur and Adalbert Grosse who have led it since the 1930s to supply a complete global market. After Mitchel Maer, Henkel & Grosse was chosen to manufacture Christian Dior jewelry in 1955. From that time on, four collectors each year had to be created....

From the late 1920s and early 1930s she designed and furnished her own home, Tempe à Pailla, a Modernist space based on that of a ship’s structure. With long and narrow forms, outside decks were carefully placed to maximize views allowing for both private, secluded spaces and for those suitable for entertaining. Embracing the concept of a building as a living machine, the house incorporated public areas as well segregated private areas. This multi-functionality was reflected in her furniture design...

Designing Tomorrow celebrates the influence and impact of these international expositions. Offering an overview of the fairs and detailed discussions of individual works, distinguished authors examine how designers reconciled radical ?European” Modern style with American tradition. Works by Edward H. Bennet, Gilbert Rohde, George Keck, Richard Neutra, and others illuminate the ways in which Modernism became an integral component of the vocabulary of American design.  Additional essays highlight the...

Mid-1930s clothing for men, women, and children are presented in 300 color photographs from the Sears catalogs. See the popular styles of dresses, suits, coats, and sleepwear; as well as hats, shoes, and undergarments. Printed and solid fabrics are shown with customary accessories and in the latest styles available. Today's fashion designers will find the pages inspiring, and vintage clothing collectors will enjoy authentic designs.

Within each section the reader will find subsections detailing innovations and advances in that field--for example, Business and finance is made up of Accounting, Banking, Business machines, Exchanges, Hotels, Insurance, Lotteries, Merchandising, Money, Taxes, and Time keeping. This work describes the beginnings of many aspects of daily life in America, covering most innovations through approximately the 1930s. Dedicated to detailing the introduction of various advances or innovations, the book does...

Lavies created this solemn poster in support of the Committee for Jewish Refugees which had been established in 1933 shortly after the announcement of the Jewish-boycott of Germany. First and foremost a commercial artist--designing works for General Motors, the Dutch railroads, shipping lines, Shell, Esso and others--he donated his services to this worthy cause. Lavies, a highly talented graphic designer born in The Hague, took a few years of apprenticeship in Berlin, New York, and Batavia, but eventually...

Description Table of Contents Author Bios European cinema between World Wars I and II was renowned for its remarkable attention to detail and visual effects in set design. Visionary designers such as Vincent Korda and Alfred Junge extended their influence across national film industries in Paris, London, and Berlin, transforming the studio system into one of permeable artistic communities. For the first time,Film Architecture and the Transnational Imaginationprovides a comparative study of European...

The sensuously undulant lines of Bruno Mathsson's furniture designs made him one of the leading figures of Swedish modernism in the 1930s. Chairs that adapted to their occupant with graceful natural curves became his trademark and have been in continuous production for more than fifty years. In his less familiar architectural work, Mathsson (1907-1988) applied the same principles of innovative comfortable living. Throughout his work the connections between design and ergonomics, aesthetics and innovative...

This facsimile reprint covers the variety of flying clothing and equipment manufactured by Spalding during the 1920s and 1930s, including flying suits, leather jackets, helmets, face masks, oxygen helmets, gloves and gauntlets, women's flying suits, jackets and coats, leather coats, waders, boots, goggles, and parachutes.

The attractive physical appearance of the Noiseless Portable echoes the streamlined Art Deco contours favored by designers in the 1920s and 1930s and the resulting Noiseless Portable is considered by many collectors to be one of the most beautiful typewriters ever designed. This machine combines the speed and lightweight of the Underwood Typemaster and the quiet operation of the Underwood Standard Noiseless machine.

Lavies created this solemn poster in support of the Committee for Jewish Refugees which had been established in 1933 shortly after the announcement of the Jewish-boycott of Germany. First and foremost a commercial artist--designing works for General Motors, the Dutch railroads, shipping lines, Shell, Esso and others--he donated his services to this worthy cause. Lavies, a highly talented graphic designer born in The Hague, took a few years of apprenticeship in Berlin, New York, and Batavia, but eventually...

Lavies created this solemn poster in support of the Committee for Jewish Refugees which had been established in 1933 shortly after the announcement of the Jewish-boycott of Germany. First and foremost a commercial artist--designing works for General Motors, the Dutch railroads, shipping lines, Shell, Esso and others--he donated his services to this worthy cause. Lavies, a highly talented graphic designer born in The Hague, took a few years of apprenticeship in Berlin, New York, and Batavia, but eventually...

This book will serve generations to come as the definitive book on buying and collecting the beautiful, 1930s to 1950s era large letter linen postcards. Over 2,300 large letter postcards are documented, with a carefully researched value for each card. This will assist dealers to fairly price their postcards and protect the collector from overpaying. There is a detailed history of the postcards and information about the designers and manufacturers.

What a dandy! Originally, typewriter manufacturers attempted to achieve the much-desired "noiseless" state by using various methods of muffling the sound -- with covers over the mechanism or with weighted plates to reduce vibration. Eventually it was in modifying the action of the type bars to stop precisely at the platen, which accomplished the best sound reduction. This innovation by C.C. Colby of Quebec, and one of the most prolific of typewriter inventors, Wellington P. Kidder, was sold to...