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Mid-century design as a book category covers the aesthetics, history and cultural context of design from roughly the 1930s to the 1960s, emphasizing the modernist ideals that shaped architecture, furniture, interiors, product and graphic design after World War II. Titles in this category explore defining features—clean lines, organic and geometric forms, functionalism with minimal ornament, new materials and mass-production techniques (plywood, molded plastics, fiberglass, tubular steel), and the integration of indoor and outdoor living—alongside influential figures and movements such as the Eameses, Saarinen, Jacobsen, Scandinavian modernism and American postwar architects. Books range from richly illustrated monographs and coffee-table photography to academic histories, restoration and collecting guides, pattern and DIY manuals, and market/valuation references, appealing to designers, historians, collectors and anyone seeking practical inspiration or historical perspective on mid-20th-century modernism.

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