9781568985831-1568985835-Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond

Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond

ISBN-13: 9781568985831
ISBN-10: 1568985835
Edition: First Edition /First Printing
Author: William Whitaker, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Christine Vendredi-Auzanneau, Kurt Helfrich
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781568985831
ISBN-10: 1568985835
Edition: First Edition /First Printing
Author: William Whitaker, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Christine Vendredi-Auzanneau, Kurt Helfrich
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond (ISBN-13: 9781568985831 and ISBN-10: 1568985835), written by authors William Whitaker, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, Christine Vendredi-Auzanneau, Kurt Helfrich, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Architects & Firms (Architecture) books. You can easily purchase or rent Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Architects & Firms books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.32.

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There appears to be no end in sight to the ongoing love affair with mid-century modern design. Still, it's curious that we keep hearing the same names again and again while so much inspiring work waits for its "moment" to be discovered. Antonin and No mi Raymond are now ready for their close-up. Crafting a Modern World is the first comprehensive book in English on the duo that creatively transformed design from 1917 to 1966. Best known for a series of finely detailed structures built in Japan during the 1930s, the Raymonds had prolific careers that included designs for factories, office buildings, churches, and schools as well as furniture, fabrics, and graphic design.

The Raymonds combined their European modern roots with the vernacular craft traditions they discovered in regions as diverse as Japan, India, and rural Pennsylvania. They also collaborated with some of the twentieth century's leading thinkers and artists, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Cass Gilbert, Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, and Fernand L ger. Inspired by the conventions of traditional Japanese buildings, they brought a high level of attention to craft to all their work, from churches in Chicago and Karuizawa to the Tokyo Tennis Club, the Pacific Cable Company Station in Guam, the Golconde Dormitory in India, and houses throughout the northeastern U.S., including their own modernist interventions at a rural farmhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Four essays round out this thorough examination of the Raymonds' careers a missing and enchanting chapter in the history of mid-century modern design.

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