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INTERIORS, FURNITURE, AND PRODUCT DESIGN

PUBLISHER
Demisch Danant

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color / 50 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/1/2006
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 49

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780977329700 TRADE
List Price: $85.00 CAD $112.50 GBP £75.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

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WORLD

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Maria Pergay: Between Ideas and Design

Edited by Paul B. Franklin. Essay by Suzanne Demisch. Interview by Patrick Favardin.

At a recent auction, after two of Maria Pergay's 1970s steel chairs sold for seven times their high estimate, an observer told The New York Times that was "the most exciting bidding of the sale, because it was fashion." Over Pergay's 50-year-and-counting career, her sophisticated objects, furniture and decor have won her a following and an illustrious clientele that has included Salvador Dali, Pierre Cardin and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, but they have only recently gained recognition among design collectors, curators and aficionados. Maria Pergay: Between Ideas and Design is the first in-depth survey of the designer's remarkable life and work. Beginning in the 1950s and continuing to the present, it features over 200 photographs of interiors and furniture, archival illustrations from her personal collection--most of which have never before been published--and a candid interview. The end product is equal parts authoritative reference, source of rare insight and aesthetic journey into the lifestyle of the cultural and social elite of the late 60s and early 70s.