From Jacobsen to Tupperware, this fascinating new dictionary covers modern design from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Both wide-ranging and comprehensive, it covers commercial design as well as high art terms and aesthetic movements. Over 2,000 entries on names and movements from the past 150 years of design include those on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, fashion, major museums and heritage sites, as well as biographical entries on designers and manufacturers.

Introduction A-Z Dictionary of Modern Design Bibliography Timelines Author index

Jonathon M. Woodham

`This marvelously compiled dictionary will answer just about any reference question on modern design. A delight to browse' Library Journal |d 1/4/2005