Russell Flinchum: Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer: The Man in the Brown Suit
Rizzoli, 1997. . Binding: Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 222 pages.
Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, sellotape removal marks to front and rear pastedowns, slight wear to jacket.
Dreyfuss was one of the high-profile designers who shaped the golden age of industrial design (1930-1960).He fashioned hundreds of telephones, tractors, vacuum cleaners, alarm clocks etc into icons of modernism. This book was published in conjunction with a major exhibition which the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, NY staged to celebrate Dreyfus's achievement.