EXHIBITIONS
A SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS
Klaus Franck
Klaus Franck: EXHIBITIONS: A SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961. First edition. Text in English and German. Oblong quarto. Red cloth titled in white. Photo illustrated dust jacket. 252 pp. 593 black and white photographs, scale drawings and plans profiling 130 international exhibitions. Jacket lightly worn. Glossy textblock with light sun yellowing to edges. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
11.5 x 9 hardcover book with 252 pages and 593 annotated photographs, scale drawings and plans. A survey of the best (c. 1961) permanent, temporary or traveling exhibit design for industry, trade and art. Discussions include construction, lighting techniques and materials. Also includes a directory of the architects and designers of the 130 presented exhibits from 16 countries. Does it get better than this?
The 130 highlighted exhibits include Good Design (MoMA and The Merchandise Mart, Chicago), documenta '55 and documenta II '59, XI Triennale di Milano (Swiss section, Section of Industrial Design, Finnish section, Japanese section, Compasso d'Oro, and Exhibition of the School of Design, Ulm), San Francisco Showroom of the Herman Miller Furniture Company, San Francisco and Milan Knoll Showrooms, New York Showroom of the Olivetti Corporation, and World's Fair Brussels (Japanese Pavilion, Brazilian Pavilion, Finnish Pavilion, Yugoslav Pavilion, Swiss Pavilion, and more). Designers and architects include Oskar Blase, Max Bill, Gyorgy Kepes, Richard Hamilton, Luciano Baldessari, Vittoriano Vigano, Arnold Bode, Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Timo Sarpaneva, Charles and Ray Eames, Paul Rudolph, Alexander Girard, Arthur Drexler, Tapio Wirkkala, Will Burtin, Peter Blake, Florence Knoll, Bruno Munari, Walter Kuhn, Rolf Volhard, Studio Architetti, Richard Buckminster Fuller and George Nelson and Company.
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