Inventing The California Look
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Inventing The California Look
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Author : Philip E. Meza
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2022-04-05
Inventing The California Look written by Philip E. Meza and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-05 with House & Home categories.
The influential rooms of Elkins, Taylor, Dickinson, and other great talents—as photographed by Fred Lyon—represent the innovation and splendor of postwar Northern California interiors, which continue to inspire the work of designers today. From the 1940s to the 1980s, some of the best resi-dences in Northern California were decorated by a coterie of designers whose names were once recognized only by the cognoscenti of interior design. From Frances Elkins and Tony Hail, with their aristocratic aesthetics, to Michael Taylor and John Dickinson, with their bold fantasies, these designers created revolutionary settings that were idiomatic of their time and place—fresh, luxurious spaces complementing the various terrains and lifestyles of the northern part of the state. Fred Lyon (b. 1924) is perhaps the only photographer who knew and documented the work of this talented group. Akin to what Julius Shulman was doing in Southern California, Lyon worked closely with the designers and magazine editors to help shape the look for posterity. In the years following the work of these giants, most of the spaces they created are gone or vastly changed, replaced by different tastes and new styles. Now re-appreciated for their artistry, we can relive this exciting era through Lyon’s superb photography.
Inventing The Dream
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1986-12-04
Inventing The Dream written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12-04 with History categories.
This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place," writes Starr. As he recreates the "lost California," Starr examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture, the rise of Hollywood. He gives us a broad array of engaging (and often eccentric) characters: from Harrision Gray Otis to Helen Hunt Jackson to Cecil B. DeMille. Whether discussing the growth of winemaking or the burgeoning of reform movements, Starr keeps his central theme in sharp focus: how Californians defined their identity to themselves and to the nation.
Inventing The Dream
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Inventing The Dream written by Kevin Starr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with California, Southern categories.
Inventing The Language To Tell It
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Author : George Hart
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2013-09
Inventing The Language To Tell It written by George Hart and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Examines American poet Robinson Jeffers's concern with the evolution of consciousness and its effects on humans' relationship with the natural world. Presents an account of his development of a poetics that integrates scientific and spiritual views of the universe.
Inventing Times Square
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Author : William R. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996-04
Inventing Times Square written by William R. Taylor and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04 with History categories.
A unique volume, Inventing Times Square approaches the subject of twentieth-century American city culture through a multidimensional examination of one quintessential urban space: Times Square. Ranging in time from 1905, when the crossroad was given its present name, through to the current plans for redevelopment, the authors examine Times Square as economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment center, advertising medium, architectural experiment, and erotic netherworld. Though the volume centers on Times Square, the essays venture much further into urban history and American social history, revealing in the process how Times Square reflected—even epitomized—America as it became an urban consumer culture.
The International Collection Of Interior Design
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The International Collection Of Interior Design written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Commercial catalogs categories.
Inventing
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Author : Philip B. Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Liberty House
Release Date : 1989
Inventing written by Philip B. Knapp and has been published by Liberty House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Business & Economics categories.
Michael Taylor
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Author : Stephen M. Salny
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2008
Michael Taylor written by Stephen M. Salny and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Interior decoration categories.
The life and work of the groundbreaking interior designer and inventor of the California Look.
1950s American Fashion
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Author : Jonathan Walford
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-10
1950s American Fashion written by Jonathan Walford and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Design categories.
The 1950s was the first decade when American fashion became truly American. The United States had always relied on Europe for its style leads, but during World War II, when necessity became the mother of invention, the country had to find its own way. American designers looked to what American women needed and found new inspirations for American fashion design. Sportswear became a strength, but not at the expense of elegance. Easy-wear materials were adapted for producing more formal clothes, and versatile separates and adaptable dress and jacket suits became hallmarks of American style. This book follows the American fashion industry from New York's 7th Avenue to the beaches of California in search of the clothes that defined 1950s American fashion.
Inventing Modern
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Author : John H. Lienhard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-09-18
Inventing Modern written by John H. Lienhard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.