The other moderns : Sydney's forgotten European design legacy / edited by Rebecca Hawcroft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawcroft, Rebecca, author.

Contributor:

Hawcroft, Rebecca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Australia--History--20th century.

Architecture.

Architecture, European--20th century.

Architecture, European.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : NewSouth, 2017.

Summary:

While Harry Seidler is one of Australia's most famous architects, little is known of his European-born contemporaries. The Other Moderns uncovers the work of Sydney's forgotten émigré architects, interior designers, and furniture makers working from the 1930s to 1960s, and reveals their groundbreaking impact on modernist design. Highlighting the direct connections between Sydney and the European design centers of Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest, the book provides a new understanding of modernism. Profiling the work of architects like Henry Epstein and Hugo Stossel, along with Gerstl Furniture, The Other Moderns tells the story of the network of architects, designers, property developers, retailers, and photographers working together to bring a distinctly European style to mid-century Australia. Richly illustrated with rare photography, including stunning images from Austrian-born photographer Margaret Michaelis, and furniture from the collection of Hotel Hotel Canberra, the book explores the work of this unacknowledged group of style makers for the first time.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword by Nectar Efkarpidis

Introduction: Remembering Sydney's European design legacy by Rebecca Hawcroft

1. Lessons from things: European design training by Michael Bogle

2. The lucky escapees: European architects in postwar Sydney by Rebecca Hawcroft

3. Ferdinand Silberstein-Silvan: Loss and legacy by Rebecca Hawcroft

4. Custom-made for European tastes: The Gerstl Furniture story by Catriona Quinn

5. Design for happiness: George Kóródy and Artes Studios by Jeromie Maver

6. The Bonyhady desks by Tim Bonyhady

7. From the margins to the mainstream by Rebecca Hawcroft

8. A hidden legacy: Margaret Michaelis's photography by Helen Ennis

9. Zsuzsa Kozma and the drinks trolley by Rebecca Hawcroft

10. The migrants who built modern Sydney by Tone Wheeler

Q and A: Ken Neale and his furniture

Notes

Image credits

Index

Editor's acknowledgments

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2017).

ISBN:

1-74224-840-3

OCLC:

1002849054