Designing modern America :

Innes, Christopher, 1941-

Designing modern America : Broadway to Main Street / Christopher Innes. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - xiv, 320 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index.

Styling for the modern age -- Egos at work -- Theatrical fashions -- Stage and screen -- Society scenery -- A century of progress -- Riding into the future -- The world of tomorrow -- Car culture -- Street scenes -- Reaching for the sky -- Suburban heaven -- Lifestyle begins in the kitchen -- Selling modernity -- Afterword : then and now.

0300108044 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2005008719

GBA592252 bnb

013326010 Uk


Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933 --Criticism and interpretation.
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958 --Criticism and interpretation.


Design--History--United States--20th century.
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery--History--United States--20th century.

NK1404 .I55 2005
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