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«Nordic Design in Translation: The Circulation of Objects, Ideas and Practices is an exciting and necessary addition to the discourse on material culture, bringing together fresh approaches to the transnational character of Nordic design. The contributors take the reader outside the established frameworks of national, institutional and disciplinary boundaries and offer us a way to think about the circulation of objects, ideas and practices and...

Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither object-like nor building-like, but somewhere in between - air conditioning, bookshelves, partition walls, table-monuments, TVs, convenienc...

Building-Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the 13 chapters in this book examine things which are neither object-like or building-like, but somewhere in between - air conditioning, bookshelves, partition walls, table-monuments, TVs, convenience st...

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating. This book is struct...

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating. This book is struct...

The period from the 1870s to the 1920s was marked by an interplay between nationalisms and internationalisms, culminating in the First World War, on the one hand, and the creation of the League of Nations, on the other. The arts were central to this debate, contributing both to the creation of national traditions and to the emergence of ideas, objects and networks that forged connections between nations or that enabled internationalists to ima...

Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places the individuals who have achieved international fame, such as Edvard Munch and Alvar Aalto in a wider context, and through a series of case studies...

Prag 1786. Auf Einladung der Oberschicht und einer großzügigen Spende des Barons Saloka, reist der junge Komponist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nach Prag, um dort seine neue Oper "Don Giovanni" zu schreiben. Die Ankunft des unkonventionellen Mozarts sorgt für einigen Trubel in der Stadt. Auch die junge Sopranistin Zuzana verfällt dem Charme des Komponisten und die beiden beginnen eine heimliche Affäre. Doch Zuzana ist bereits gegen ihren Willen dem...

Prag 1786. Auf Einladung der Oberschicht und einer großzügigen Spende des Barons Saloka, reist der junge Komponist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nach Prag, um dort seine neue Oper "Don Giovanni" zu schreiben. Die Ankunft des unkonventionellen Mozarts sorgt für einigen Trubel in der Stadt. Auch die junge Sopranistin Zuzana verfällt dem Charme des Komponisten und die beiden beginnen eine heimliche Affäre. Doch Zuzana ist bereits gegen ihren Willen dem...

Excerpt from Preliminary Inventory of the Cartographic Records of the Forest Service (Record Group 95)Appendix Description of records in the project files of the Drafting and Atlas Section, Division of Engineering (entry 94)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...

Excerpt from Preliminary Inventory of the Cartographic Records of the Forest Service (Record Group 95)Appendix Description of records in the project files of the Drafting and Atlas Section, Division of Engineering (entry 94)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...

The Viennese café was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural and political world of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Just as the café served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates convers...

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