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• English and Finnish.

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• Design — Finland.
• Finland. fast (OCoLC)fst01205503

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• Includes index.
• In English, German, French and Swedish.

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• Design — Scandinavia.
• Design. fast (OCoLC)fst00891253
• Scandinavia. fast (OCoLC)fst01242804

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-146) and index.
• pt. I. The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design — 1. The Increasing Incidence of Disasters — 2. Our Planetary Ponzi Scheme — 3. Fracture-Critical Design — 4. Disasters on Demand — 5. The Anti-Shock Doctrine — 6. Redefining Success — pt. II. How Fracture-Critical Design Affects Our Lives — 7. Fracture-Critical Species — 8. He-sizing the Human Footprint — 9. Fracture-Critical Population — 10. Protective Design — 11. Fracture-Critical Economy — 12. Rethinking Work — 13. Fracture-Critical Politics — 14. Rethinking Government — 15. Fracture-Critical Higher Education — 16. Redesigning the University — 17. Fracture-Critical Infrastructure — 18. Going Dutch — 19. Fracture-Critical Developments — 20. A Better Way to Dwell — 21. Fracture-Critical Buildings — 22. Designing for Durability — 23. Fracture-Critical Consumption — 24. Creative Citizen Consumption — pt. III. Designing to Avoid Future Disasters — 25. Why We Have So Much Bad Design — 26. The Design Mind — 27. The Process of Design — 28. The Logic of Design — 29. The Pragmatics of Design — 30. The Holon of Design — 31. Designing Our Future — 32. What We Can Live Without — 33. The Adulthood of the Species — 34. Media, Metaphor, and Meaning — 35. The Nature of Things to Come — 36. Hell or Paradise?
• Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince’s destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant’s devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redundancy and so much interconnectedness and misguided efficiency that they fail completely if any one part does not perform as intended. If we, as architects, planners, engineers, and citizens are to predict and prepare for the next disaster, we need to recognize this error in our thinking and to understand how design thinking provides us with a way to anticipate unintended failures and increase the resiliency of the world in which we live. In Designing to Avoid Disaster, the author discusses the context and cultural assumptions that have led to a number of disasters worldwide, describing the nature of fracture-critical design and why it has become so prevalent. He traces the impact of fracture-critical thinking on everything from our economy and politics to our educational and infrastructure systems to the communities, buildings, and products we inhabit and use everyday. And he shows how the natural environment and human population itself have both begun to move on a path toward a fracture-critical collapse that we need to do everything possible to avoid. We designed our way to such disasters and we can design our way out of them, with a number of possible solutions that Fisher provides.

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• Design — Methodology.
• Safety factor in engineering.

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Part of the series Public history in historical perspective;Public history in historical perspective.
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• Includes index.
• Introduction. Inventing antiques — 1. Priceless and price : the antiquing of New England — 2. The Jewish dealer : antiques, acculturation, and aesthetics — 3. Jessie Barker Gardner and George Gardner : making a collection permanent — 4. Highboys and high culture : adopting an American aesthetic in Deerfield, Massachusetts — 5. Exhibiting the ordinary : history making at the Smithsonian — Epilogue. The end of the antique?
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-251) and index.
• Briann G. Greenfield traces the transformation of antiques from family keepsakes to valuable artistic objects, examining the role of collectors, dealers, and museum makers in the construction of a new tradition based on the aesthetic qualities of early American furnishings. While recognizing the significance of antiques as symbols of an enduring American culture, Greenfield also delves behind popular rhetoric to examine the development of a retail structure specifically designed to facilitate the buying and selling of old wares. –from publisher description

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• Antiques business — New England — History — 20th century.
• New England — Antiquities — Collectors and collecting — History — 20th century.
• House furnishings — New England — Marketing — Case studies.
• Neuengland. swd
• New England (Verenigde Staten) gtt
• New England. fast (OCoLC)fst01241913
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• Case studies. fast (OCoLC)fst01423765
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Reprint. Originally published: New York : Reinhold Book Corp., 1968.
• Notan in everyday life — Symmetrical and asymmetrical balance — Negative shapes with positive reversals — Control of positive and negative space — Value and the constructive use of tension — The elements of design — A compartmented design — Notan and the innocent eye.

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• Design.
• Composition (Art)
• Decoration

Requested by Hoisington, E

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• Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated, the volume covers interiors, furniture, textiles and dress, glass, graphics, metalwork, ceramics, exhibitions, product design, landscape and garden design, and theater and film design. Divided into four chronological sections, each of which is subdivided geographically, the authors elucidate the evolution of style, form, materials, and techniques, and address vital issues such as gender, race, patronage, cultural appropriation, continuity versus innovation, and high versus low culture. Leading authorities in design history and decorative arts studies present hundreds of objects in their contemporary contexts, demonstrating the overwhelming extent to which the applied arts have enriched customs, ceremony, and daily life worldwide over the past six hundred years. This ambitious, landmark publication is essential reading, contributing a definitive classic to the existing scholarship on design, decorative arts, and material culture, while also introducing these subjects to new readers in a comprehensive, erudite book with widespread appeal — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 666-673) and index.
• 1400-1600. East Asia — India — The Islamic World — Africa — Europe — The Americas — 1600-1750. East Asia — India — The Islamic World — Africa — Europe — The Americas — 1750-1900. East Asia — India — The Islamic World — Africa — Europe — The Americas — 1900-2000. East Asia — India — The Islamic World — Africa — Europe and the Americas.

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• Decorative arts — History.

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Part of the series Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies;Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.
• Made in America — Amish quilts, Amish values — Off of beds and onto walls — Folk art and women’s work — The fashion for quilts — From rags to riches — Amish intermediaries — A good Amish quilt folded like money — Designed to sell — Homespun efficiency — The Amish brand — Outsourcing authenticity.

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• Amish quilts.

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• 1,058 color illustrations
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-559) and index.
• Impact : Context Language, legacies and learning Colour and the global vision — Ingredients : Invention Intentions Alchemy — Structure : Non-tensioned techniques Looping, knotting, lacing and twisting Loom-weaving — Surface : Yarns Stitch Painting and printing — Added dimensions : Letting the cloth speak Patchwork and quilting Textiles parkour — Imagery : Identity Narrative Of time and place.

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• Textile fabrics — History.
• Textile design — History.
• Textile fabrics — Pictorial works.

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• DVD
• Eight ceramic artists from Minnesota discuss their methods with working with clay and how they pass on their skills.

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• Potters — Minnesota.

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• Originally published by Verlag von Julius Hoffman, Stuttgart, 1887.
• Includes index.
• Dolmetsch’s Treasury of Ornament is one of the great nineteenth century studies in pattern and design. Each of the plates is accompanied by a detailed text, and the volume is encyclopaedic in its scope, giving a chronological, analytical and comprehensive view of developments in ornamentation from Ancient Egyptain and Grecian Art to seventeenth and eighteenth century Baroque and rococo motifs. –Dust jacket.

Subjects:

• Decoration and ornament.
• Decorative arts.

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