V&A Pattern: The Fifties: (Hardcover with CD)

The Victoria and Albert Museum London is the worlds greatest museum of art and design with a vast collection that been an unparalleled resource for designers for 150 years. This new series of pattern books presents the range of the V&As superb collections. Beautifully designed accessible and informative these little books are a repository of ideas and inspiration for designers of all kinds. Included in each volume is a CD of all the images shown within--to be redrawn reworked or even licensed for further use. The books are available individually or in a beautiful decorative slipcase. The Fifties The Fifties produced some of the most inventive and innovative twentieth-century pattern designs as the emerging trend for abstraction in the fine arts--as exemplified by Mir Calder and Klee for instance--acted as a stimulus for many European and American designers.