DESIGN FOR MODERN LIVING
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HOME FURNISHING AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Gerd Hatje and Peter Kaspar
Gerd Hatje and Peter Kaspar: DESIGN FOR MODERN LIVING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HOME FURNISHING AND INTERIOR DESIGN. London: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1975. First edition thus. Quarto. Mustard cloth titled in gold. Photo illustrated dust jacket. [300] pp. 316 color plates. 129 black and white illustrations. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Close inspection reveals a trace of wear: an exceptionally well-preserved example. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
9 x 11.25 hardcover book with 300 pages and 445 illustrations, including 316 plates in full color. Whenever you find a book authored by Gerd Hatje you can rest assured you are getting the good stuff: a finely curated selection of contemporary goods, excellent photo reproduction, clean modern design and typography.
From the book: "In nine ample chapters, the home is scrutinized section by section. The entrance, the living room,...the house as a whole are all examined in the total context of modern living."
Absolutely the best book for interior design of the mid to late sixties, showing the transition from the organic modernism of the 1950s to the Op-art and post-modern ideologies of the 1960s and 1970s. Gerd hatje was the editor of the New Furniture (Neue Mobel) series and really knew what he was talking about. Highly recommended.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Entrance
- The Living Room
- Dining Room and Dining Area
- The Kitchen
- The Bedroom
- Childrens Room
- The Teenagers Room
- Studies and hobby Rooms
- The House as a Whole
- Index of architects and Designers
Contains work by the following designers, artists, and manufacturers: Franco Albini, Franca Helg, Jorge Arango, Titina Amannati, Helmut Bätzner, Benjamin Baldwin, Harry Bates, Milo Baughman, Owen Beenhouwer, Ward Bennett, Mary Bloch, Cini Boeri, Pierre Botschi, Marcel Breuer, Oscar Cagna, Gigi Capriolo, Piero Castellini, Achille Castiglioni, Francois Catroux, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Richard Meier, Luigi Colani, Joe Colombo, Terence Conran, Nancy Copley, Victor Cromie, Claudio Dini, Jacques Dronneau, Ralph Erskine, Patrick Fouquet, Jean-Pierre Frére, Pierre Gautier-Delaye, Giuseppe Genazzini, Giuliana Gramigna, Ernesto Griffini, Pierre Guariche, Hugh Hardy, Holger Tangas Hansen, Isabelle Hebey, Bard Henriksen, Hugh Jacobsen, Norman Jaffe, Philip Johnson, Walk Jones, Romano Juvara, Vladimir Kagan, Kammerer & Belz, Wim Kempen, Inge Klinkenberg, Florence Knoll, Kramer & Kramer, Karl Lagerfeld, Adalberto Lago, Gerd Lange, Mogens Lassen, Estelle & Erwine Laverne, Italo Lupo, Oscar Cagna, Vico Magistretti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Sergio Mazza, Tartaglino Mazzuchelli, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Dario Montagni, Rosanna Monzini, Adriana Moretti, Olivier Mourgue, Hans Müler, Eliot Noyes, Vener Panton, Riva Peduzzi, Piero Pinto, Giancarlo Piretti, Warren Platner, Paul Quintrand, Carla Ravaioli, Jens Risom, Milan Ronchi, Augusto Rossari, Fernando Rossi, Franca Santi, Courtouis Salier, Claudio Salacchi, Alberto Salvachi, Ambrogio Tristoldi, Robert Sobel, Sam Stephenson, Cesare Stevens, Stout & Litchfield, Studio A4, Roger Tallon, Marcel Thoenen, Francesco Trabucco, Sig Udstad, Ums-Pastoe, Carla Venosta, Milan Vitali, Gianpiero Vitelli, Daniela Volpi, Arno Votteler, Wilkes & Faulkner, Poppy Wolff, Ed Wormley, Marco Zanuso, Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Piero Catellini, Eero Saarinen, Hans Wegner, Gio Ponti, Harry Bertoia, Arne Jacobsen, Poul Kjaerholm, Le Corbusier, and others.