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Catalogue bookseller. Private Premises, By "In this meticulously detailed biography, journalist Ian Volner explores the life of Michael Graves, renowned designer and architect. Perhaps best known for his design of the Alessi whistling-bird teakettle and bold building design, Graves left a resounding mark in the history of product design and in the broader visual landscape before his.
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Michael Graves is a leading twentieth-century architect and designer whose drawings, buildings, and products are notable for their manipulation of archetypal forms into highly abstract, figurative compositions.Designer Monographs 3; 144 Michael Graves was an American architect and designer, one of the principal figures in the postmodernist movement. Graves earned a bachelor’s degree in from the College of Design at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a master’s degree in architecture () at Harvard University.
Explore books by Amy Ian Volner's biography on Graves did not start out as such. As he explains at the beginning of Design for Life, and recounted at a book talk at Rizzoli Bookstore in New York late last year, it was first "imagined as either an oral history or a memoir," eventually taking the latter form. But Graves died at the age of 80 in March , not long.