"Twentieth-Century Pattern Design combines photographs - including many newly published images - with soundly researched text, creating an essential resource fo

From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia

Areas including the US mail, production and packaging, brand names and characters, radio and television, and expositions and the Olympics. A final chapter cover

An exploration of the parallel development of product and graphic design from the 18th century to the 21st. The effects of mass production and consumption, man-