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Formica & design : from the counter top to high art

Title
Formica & design : from the counter top to high art / editor, Susan Grant Lewin ; introduction by R. Craig Miller ; essays by Sarah Bayliss [and others] ; afterword by Vincent P. Langone.
Publication
New York : Rizzoli, 1991.
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Additional Authors
Lewin, Susan Grant.
Description
191 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Alternative Title
Formica and design.
Subject
  • Formica Corporation
  • Laminated plastics
  • Plastics in interior decoration
  • Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
  • Interieurkunst
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-185) and index.
Contents
The Formica history : it isn't what you think / Steven Holt -- The logo / Karrie Jacobs -- Plastics / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Evolutions in surface design / Marybeth Shaw -- The autonomous image / Alessandro De Gregori -- Formica in the fifties / Barbara Goldstein -- Brooks Stevens / Simon Leung -- Formica and diners / Richard J.S. Gutman -- Plastic expression / Sarah Bodine and Michael Dumas -- The laminate woman : Formica in women's lives / Sarah Bayliss -- Wood grains / Simon Leung -- From magical to mundane and back / Susan Grant Lewin -- The phenomenon of Formica / Steven Holt -- Afterword / Vincent P. Langone.
ISBN
0847813347
LCCN
90050793
OCLC
  • ocm22731694
  • SCSB-5275014
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries