Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 by Christopher Wilk

The history of Postmodern Architecture by Heinrich Klotz. Cambridge MA; The MIT Press, 1988. This first standard work on the past 25 years in postmodern architecture documents the ri...

Modern Times - The Age of Photography by Mattie Boom. Published by Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2014. 1st Ed hardcover. The Rijksmuseum's Philips Wing is scheduled to reopen in November 2014 with Modern Times: The Age of Photography, a major survey of twentieth-century photography culled from the Rijksmuseum's collection (a first for the museum). Growing spectacularly since the decision was made in 1994 to collect photography beyond the nineteenth century, the collection now includes some 20,000 twentieth-century works, including masterpieces by photographers such as Andre Kertesz, Brassai, Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, William Klein, Eva Besnyo, Man Ray and Joel Meyerowitz. A wide-ranging overview published to accompany the exhibition, this catalog, designed by the renowned Irma Boom, traces key developments in photography over the course of the last century through more than 350 photographs, from Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies...

This book offers a unique perspective on the decorative arts of the mid-twentieth century. The first serious book on a period just beginning to be researched by scholars and little k...

An homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware, ceramics and textiles More than 50 years later, the fascination wi...