02487cam a2200325 4500 2675228637 TxAuBib 20260205120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780300129557 0300129556 B001H53UFY Amazon 331667e0-e11c-4880-90b8-807069104cee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1911523 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Innes, Christopher. Designing Modern America [Libby eBook] : Broadway to Main Street. Yale University Press, 2008. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Textile. Costume. HTML:<p>From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of “America" and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings.</p>Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the engrossing story of Urban and Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theater lent dramatic flair to everything they designed and how this theatricality gave the distinctive modernity they created such wide appeal. If the American lifestyle has been much imitated across the globe over the past fifty years, says Innes, it is due in large measure to the designs of Urban and Bel Geddes. Together they were responsible for creating what has been called the “Golden Age" of American culture. Nonfiction. Art. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-02-04 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/designing-modern-america?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/designing-modern-america?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BTCLS