Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution
Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution
$55.00
Whiteway, Michael
Cl. London, 2004
SKU 62625
Published in conjunction with Christopher Dresser's first comprehensive museum retrospective, organized by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, then traveling to the Victoria and Albert Museum, this extensively illustrated survey affirms his achievement as the first professional industrial designer - in effect, the inventor of the modern-day career of product designer. Dresser (1837-1904) trained both as a designer and a botanist, deriving his design vocabulary initially from observations of nature.
240 pp., 250 color illus.
