Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies
by Albrecht, Donald
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060550201
- ISBN 13
- 9780060550202
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1986. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Harper & Row, 1986, first printing. 4to., 8 1/4" x 10 1/4", xx+204pp., 163 b/w plates. "A thorough examination of the almost symbiotic relationship between modernist architecture and film design of the 1920s and 1930s. Albrecht traces the connections between film designers' art and its roots in European design movements, such as Art Deco and the Bauhaus. The penthouses, nightclubs, and skyscrapers that showed moviegoers a new way of living demanded a new look, which these architectural movements provided." Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008870
- Title
- Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies
- Author
- Albrecht, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0060550201
- ISBN 13
- 9780060550202
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Design;
- Size
- 4to
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