Arts & Culture

A great book, Mid-Century Modern Complete, recently arrived at many local branches. It's big and heavily illustrated with large scale photographs. The arrangement is thematic: furniture, lighting, glass and ceramics, textiles, product and industrial design, graphics and posters, houses and interiors and lastly A-Z of designers and makers. Each section is internally arranged alphabetically by designer. There's a lot of useful text and information that work wonderfully with the illustrations. 

I highly recommend it as both easy to browse through and easy to look up specific designers. I also like how it crosses many genres.  

Toronto Public Library has an extensive collection on mid-century modern design. Our Pinterest board has most of our books listed on it (enhanced by select images pinned onto the board).