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"In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history. What turned a house into a home? Why did northwestern Europe, a politically unimportant, sociologically underdeveloped region of the world, suddenly become the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, the capitalist...
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This program highlights the Clio gold and silver winners for the year 2002. Entries include Blockbuster's "Carl and Ray-Kung Fu," NutraSweet's "Fake," Nike's "Freestyle," Sony Wega's "Kite," Guinness's "Dreamer," Telecom Argentina's "Yawn," Moonlight Cinema's "Mozzie," the French Electricity Board's "The Valley," BMW of North America's "Ambush," Fox Sports' "Leaf Blower" and "Nail Gun," Doctors Without Borders' "Frontieres," and Womankind Worldwide's...
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With more than 345 stores worldwide, IKEA is a global leader in home furnishings. This episode examines how research and development are the foundation behind IKEA, 3M, Burberry and more.
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"Service and Style re-creates the days of downtown department stores in their prime, from the 1890s through the 1960s. Exploring in detail the wide range of merchandise they sold, particularly style goods such as clothing and home furnishings, it examines how they displayed, promoted, and sometimes produced goods. It reveals how the stores grew, why they declined, and how they responded to and shaped the society around them."--Jacket.
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In the consumer goods industry, branding is crucial to market penetration. Using Alessi's superlative line of home furnishings and Nestle's well-known Nescafe coffee as examples, modules one and two of this program seek to understand the cachet that surrounds brand names, which gives the products associated with them an added appeal. Module three goes inside the U.K. offices of advertising giant Young & Rubicam to investigate how brands are developed...
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Across continents, paper is coming into a league of its own. This program focuses on furniture and home furnishings designed and constructed from paper. In Japan, we meet Kouichi who fashions honeycomb lamps out of paper. Originally a music producer, Kouichi had his first contact with product design in Holland. In America, we meet designer Matt Gagnon. Organic and contemporary, Matt's paper table is the result of countless experimentation. Then, in...
12) Design
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The history of design, from the 18th century to postmodernism, from Shaker furniture to the international style, featuring thumbnail biographies of the world's most important designers, with explanations and illustrations of the various theories and styles such as: art nouveau, Bauhaus, Art Deco, functionalism and postmodernism.
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Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such household drudgery was routinely performed by the grandparents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Judith Flanders's...
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"Over the past three decades, Michael Graves's career has been one of the most remarkably creative and successful of any American architect practicing today. His extensive oeuvre includes such renowned projects as the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel and the Walt Disney World Swan Hotel in Florida, the San Juan Capistrano Library in California, and the precedent-setting Portland Building in Oregon, as well as designs for his highly popular lines of...
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