Chicago architectural photographs, a selection
07/06/10 – A selection of architectural photographs from a recent, and unfortunately very brief, visit to Chicago.
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- Noto ballpoint pen for Lamy by Naoto Fukasawa 2008
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- Postcards from the Chicago World’s Fair (1933)
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- Jens Quistgaard for Dansk Designs Denmark (1960)
- Karl Gerstner: The forms of colour (1986)
- C.P. Hornung: Handbook of designs and devices (1946)
- Eric Gill: An essay on typography (1936)
- Vision + value series edited by Gyorgy Kepes (1965-6)
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: The new vision (1938)
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- A new history of Canada vol. 1 (1972)
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- Falkland Lamp by Bruno Munari for Danese Milano
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- Ladislav Sutnar: Design and paper, number 19 (1945)
- Tapio Wirkkala for Iittala: 1968
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Love your snaps. Here’s another take on the same subject.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiosmith/sets/72157622122866110/
Thanks for the link to your great set, Barry. Wish I had had more time during my stop over to explore the city. Bad luck with flight cancellations gave me only half a day in Chicago.