Breuer Otl Aicher Herbert Read

Herbert Read

brings her trademark clarity and enthusiasm to the subject as she explores Britain's Art Deco buildings

This book examines the two years he spent in Britain in the mid-1930s before moving on to the United States - two intense years filled with commissions

By Magnus Englund (text) and Daniel Frost (illustrations)

by Stefi Orazi

Breuer Otl Aicher Herbert ReadHardback, 96 pages By Arnt Cobbers In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining "form givers of the 20th century." Today, Marcel Breuer (1902 1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth. In this essential introductory