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Total number of records: 31

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Brotherton Collection7
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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive6
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industrial design31
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)14
Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain)4
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)4
Gloag, John (1896-1981)4
Hollingshead, John4
Bill, Max (1908-1994)1
Blake, Avril1
Blake, John1
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Design history, fad or function?

Design Council

1978

Includes bibliographical references. The historian, the critic and the designer / James Holland -- From a lipstick to a steamship / Penny Sparke -- Steamlined expresses of the LNER 1935-39 / Alan Sel...

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DIA year book and membership list

Design & Industries Association (Great Britain)

1953-[1969]

1967-68 Cover title on some issures reads : DIA year book.

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Design quarterly

Walker Art Center

1954-1996

no.64, 1966

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Art and industry : the principles of industrial design

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1934

Title on two leaves.

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The English tradition in design

Gloag, John (1896-1981)

1947

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The practical idealists : twenty-five years of designing for industry

Blake, John; Blake, Avril

1969

Bibliographical footnotes.

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Japan design annual

[1963-]

1962

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CC41 : utility furniture and fashion 1941-1951

Sword, Richard; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Geffrye Museum (London, England)

[1995]

"Originally published by the Inner London Education Authority, 1974." Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Geffrye Museum, 24 September-29 December 1974. Statement of responsibility from Acknowl...

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Home front furniture : British utility design 1941-1951

Dover, Harriet; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1991]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-89) and index.

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Victorian taste; some social aspects of architecture and industrial design, from 1820-1900

Gloag, John (1896-1981); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1962]

The third volume of a trilogy, on the social history of design. The first is Georgian grace and the second is Victorian comfort.

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The roots of modern design: functional tradition in the 19th century

Schaefer, Herwin (1916-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1970

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206), and index.

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