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Mechanical Brides

Women and Machines from Home to Office
Princeton Architectural Press By Ellen Lupton

8.25 x 10.75 in; 64 pp ; 40 color, 150 b/w illustrations
Paperback
Published in January, 1996
ISBN 1878271970
ISBN13 9781878271976
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$17.95  

Mechanical Brides -- During the 20th century, the marketing of domestic appliances and officemachines has been directed primarily toward women. MechanicalBrides examines this phenomenon through extensive graphics(advertisements, catalog pages, photographs) and analytical text.

Ellen Lupton is one of America's preeminent design educators. Her books include Skin, Inside Design Now, and Mixing Messages, among others. She is currently director of the design program at Maryland Institute of Art and Design.

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Thorough, annotated, good-looking, and well-written. It shows off, very well, the imagination and extensive scholarship that created the project. Kay Larson, New York