Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America Sale Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts

Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction

As with every book this great modern master writes

it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was victors’ justice

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future

The international bestseller-- aheroic story of friendship and belonging

Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America Sale Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly putsEdited by Monica Obniski and Darrin Alfred This spirited volume shows how postwar designers embraced whimsy and eclecticism in their work, exploring playfulness as an essential construct of modernity. Following World War II, Americans began accumulating more and more goods, spurring a transformation in the field of interior decoration. Storage walls became ubiquitous, often serving as a homes centerpiece. Designers such as Alexander Girard encouraged