After graduating from the Sorbonne in 1921 until the outbreak of World War II, American Therese Bonney pursued a prolific career as a photojournalist. She founded the first American illustrated press service in Europe, whose specialty was modern French design and architecture. The Bonney Service did business with some twenty countries, but her homeland was always the chief focus of Bonney's tremendous energies. In America, she declared,"our offices, our cars, our clothes reflect modern life, but our furniture and our homes are of the past." She made it her mission to change that. Housed at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Bonney's amazing and little-known archive comprehensively documents the modern movement in Paris between the wars. She photographed architecture and interiors, applied arts, and fashion in private residences, annual salons, and public exhibitions. Rene Herbst, Jean Dunand, Rene Prou, Paul Poiret, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Eileen Gray, Jean Puiforcat...her captions record the glory days of Art Deco and Moderne. Bonney also recorded the changing face of Paris as the city embraced the modernist aesthetic. She turned her lens on shop fronts and window displays, advertising and graphic arts, theaters, restaurants, nightclubs, and bars. The international public was hungry to glimpse the glamour and finery of Paris, and Bonney's photographs delivered haute couture, jewelry, beauty salons, and chic department stores. 180 duotone photographs and illustrations.

The Invention of Chic: Therese Bonney and Paris Moderne

Arts & Photography

Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Kolosek, Lisa Schlansker

Bonney, M. Therese

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

The beginnings of modern design occurred in Renaissance Italy, which first fostered the concept that all the arts are based on universal principles of design. As the medieval separation of crafts broke down, Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects created designs in a variety of media to be carried out by others. With the separation of design from actual execution, drawing became the critical means of communicating between artist and artisan. The promotion of artist as designer and the rise of drawing as an independent art form were inextricably intertwined. Design (the foundation of art) and drawing (the cornerstone of design) were so intimately linked as to share the same designation--disegno. In introducing audiences to the origins of modern design, this catalog and the exhibitions associated with it seek to elevate Renaissance drawings for decorative arts objects to a new level commensurate with the fine arts.

Disegno: Italian Renaissance Designs for the Decorative Arts

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Frederic E. Church: Under Changing Skies : Oil Sketches and Drawings from the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsoni

Dee, Elaine Evans

Church, Frederick Edwin

Arthur Ross Gallery

Katonah Museum of Art

hood-museum-of-art

History & Criticism

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Book by Yvonne Brunhammer, Catherine Arminjon, Cooper-Hewitt Museum

L'Art De Vivre : Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989

Yvonne Brunhammer

Catherine Arminjon

Vendome Press

Timeless sources: Rare books in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

The Museum

Various Contributors, AMERICAN ART POTTERY, Published by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, distributed by University of Washington Press, 1987. A comprehensive survey (which served as the catalogue for a traveling exhibition of the same name) of American art pottery companies, small pottery studios, independent decorators and artist-potters working from the mid-1870s to the 1930s, most of whom drew their design inspiration from the freedom, humanism and naturalistic style so typified by the Arts and Crafts Movement. The seventy-five (75) examples presented from the Goodman collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, including those by Newcomb, Rookwood, Weller, Grueby, Chelsea, Van Bringle, Teco, Tiffany, George Ohr and others, trace the historical development of this American art form. A Bibliography is included at the back. Highly recommended reference for American art pottery enthusiasts and collectors. Large softcover 9" x 11" x .5", 144 pp. Illustrated throughout in captioned b/w and color plates. Text in English.

American Art Pottery

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Distributed by University of Washington Press

The beginnings of modern design occurred in Renaissance Italy, which first fostered the concept that all the arts are based on universal principles of design. As the medieval separation of crafts broke down, Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects created designs in a variety of media to be carried out by others. With the separation of design from actual execution, drawing became the critical means of communicating between artist and artisan. The promotion of artist as designer and the rise of drawing as an independent art form were inextricably intertwined. Design (the foundation of art) and drawing (the cornerstone of design) were so intimately linked as to share the same designation--disegno. In introducing audiences to the origins of modern design, this catalog and the exhibitions associated with it seek to elevate Renaissance drawings for decorative arts objects to a new level commensurate with the fine arts.

Univ Pr of New England

The National Design Museum in New York is one of the largest repositories of design in the world, with a collection of nearly a quarter of a million objects such as typewriters, tea pots, architectural renderings, lace, wallpaper sample books and posters. This celebration of the Museum's 100th anniversary, draws on its experience of a century of collecting, documenting and studying design. It also displays thousands of the Museum's most prized exhibits. The collection is divided into four curatorial areas: applied arts and industrial design, textiles, wall coverings and drawings and prints, each overseen by a curatorial team responsible for its care, documentation and interpretation. Each section is accompanied by explanatory notes from the Museum's curatorial team.

Design for Life: Our Daily Lives, the Spaces We Shape, and the Ways We Communicate, As Seen Through the Collections of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

Doyle, Stephen

Yelavich, Susan

Cooper-Hewitt Museum of

BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION 1983 dust jacket HARDcover (NOT soft-), free tracking number, clean NEW text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201609708 A catalogue showing and describing works for sale by ALVR, April 22-May 21, 1983. 561 objects are shown. Bibliography and Maker's Marks sections at rear. Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

Faberge, a loan exhibition for the benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, April 22-May 21, 1983

A La Vieille Russie

If sports have become a new religion, then sporting equipment has become an object of devotion. Our cultural fascination with the icons of sports—from Michael Jordan to Rollerblades—and the technology of designs that push us to ever-higher levels of performance are the subject of this intriguing book.Design for Sports examines both the equipment, showing how sports are changing as a result of advancements in design and materials, as well as the cultural implications of sports design through an investigation of advertising and popular culture.Sports equipment has undergone radical changes in recent years, as technology has reshaped the way sports are played. New designs such as oversized tennis rackets, parabolic skis, titanium bats, and reconfigured golf clubs have altered the very nature of their respective sports, setting new standards of technical performance. Indeed, some professional sports organizations have banned certain kinds of equipment because they fear it could transform the nature of their games.Design for Sports covers a range of cultural issues: how development of sports technology has heightened the visibility of and participation in women's sports; sports subcultures, revealed through the graphics of athletic footwear; and how sports equipment allows for a new relationship with the natural world, as it replicates outdoor conditions inside the gym.The contributors include sports journalist Candace Lyle Hogan; Steven Skov Holt, former editor at I.D. Magazine and currently director of strategy at the firm frogdesign; and world-class swimmer, sports announcer, and National Public Radio columnist Diana Nyad.

Design for Sports: The Cult of Performance

Comics & Graphic Novels

BUSCH, Akiko

How To Create Comics & Manga

Princeton Architectural Press

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