Industrial strength design : how Brooks Stevens shaped your world / Glenn Adamson ; [essays by John Heskett, Kristina Wilson, Jody Clowes].

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adamson, Glenn
Corporate Author:	Milwaukee Art Museum
Other Authors:	Stevens, Brooks, 1911-1995
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Milwaukee, Wis. : Cambridge, Mass. : Milwaukee Art Museum ; MIT Press, c2003.
Subjects:	Stevens, Brooks, > 1911-1995 > Exhibitions. Industrial designers > Wisconsin > Biography. Industrial design > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.

Table of Contents:

The desire for the new: the context of Brooks Stevens's career / John Heskett
Brooks Stevens, the man in your life: shaping the domestic sphere, 1935-1950 / Kristina Wilson
Brooks Stevens: "ego-inspiring styling" and the American dream / Jody Clowes
Career and designs / Glenn Adamson
One: Less than perfect: early influences and first designs, 1911-1934
Two: The right place at the right time: becoming an industrial designer in the Midwest, 1935-1940
Three: The prophet of profit: Stevens in wartime, 1941-1945
Four: The organization man: Stevens' best years, 1946-1955
Five: The enfant terrible of industrial design: planned obsolescence and other crimes against modernism, 1956-1978
Six: The seer who made Milwaukee famous: reluctant retirement, 1978-1994.

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