Miller's Mid-Century Modern: Living with mid-century modern design Hardcover – January 2, 2018

Very informative

Was a great book to be introduced to this genre of style.

Only a small selection of suggest mid century design

this is a great book

Mid-century is now far enough back to be considered historic and art book publishers think it worthwhile to have the creative efforts of the period in their book lists. Put 'mid-century' into Amazon search and you'll come with a wealth of titles. This book is a reprint of the 2012 edition (published by Mitchell Beazley) and I found it a reasonable, though very generalized, look back at the wonderfully designed products for the home.The title is basically in two sections: products (170 pages) and a designers index (45 pages) before these there is an illustrated essay about the origins of the style and back pages have a Resources and Index but the book is really a collection of huge product photos (floating in rather excessive white space) and captions with a brief essays explaining their historic context. As such there is not too much new here that isn't available in other books. Perhaps of interest is the price guide for each item, ranging from under $65 to $390,000 but the prices are the same as the 2012 edition.For those interested in a much broader and comprehensive look at the period I think Dominic Bradbury's 2014 'Mid-century modern: complete' (544 pages) is better. It covers the same subjects as the Miller book but also considers industrial design, graphics and architecture and the usual illustrated designer index.

Unfortunately the book could have done with a copyedit; I spotted a couple of typos, which are really unacceptable in a final volume. The structure is strange: sections are devoted to furniture; fine; but then randomly interspersed with some information about lighting; then back to furniture. Then over to glassware and fabrics (which take up a surprising amount of space); then back over to an alphabetised list of designers, along with some images of their key designs, which is duplicative of earlier content... The sections don't include lots of important design (notably British design of note, including Staples, Ladderax, GPlan gets one photo, etc) and a categorisation along the lines of types of design (eg: modular storage sections; sideboards and credenzas; armchairs; sofas; etc) would have been great and would have made a lot more sense than this disjointed affair.All in all, a pretty shambolic and amateurish book. Not worth the money (and my copy came with several creases in the dust jacket, but the book itself can't be blamed for that...).

I’m rather disappointed with this. It is far from comprehensive. Thankfully I didn’t buy the hard copy. I wouldn’t recommend it. There are however some interesting aspects, hence two stars.

Interesting but would have preferred information on items more suitable for everyday collectors without deep pockets too.

Good illustrations and informative commentary.

Stinning coffee table book for mid century design inspiration