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Selection Of More Than 125 Masterworks, Which Have Been Especially Photographed In Settings Appropriate To Their Period And Design. Title Is Divided Into Thirteen Sections, Each Introduced By A Concise Essay On The Stylistic Characteristics Shared By The Examples That Follow, Including Glass, Ceramics, Metalwork, Lighting, Textiles, Costume, Architectural And Design Drawings, And Furniture. From Book Jacket. Peceptions Of Design -- Modern Design At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art -- The Colorplates. R. Craig Miller; Photographs By Mark Darley. Spine Title: Modern Design, 1890-1990. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 298-304) And Index.