Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933
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While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs--from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects--and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691175128
ISBN13:9780691175126
Release Date:June 2018
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:3.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 7.8" x 10.3"
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