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9780789315311
Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's tomorrow is a superb tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture and design.Garn, Andrew is the author of 'Exit to Tomorrow History of the Future, World's Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005', published 2007 under ISBN 9780789315311 and ISBN 0789315319.
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