American Decades
Michael Graves Toaster
Work of art
By: Michael Graves
Date: 1999
Source: Michael Graves Toaster. Designed for Target Stores and manufactured by Black & Decker. 1999. Photograph available online at www.michaelgraves.com (accessed April 29, 2003).
About the Designer: Michael Graves (1934–) was born in Indianapolis. He studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati and Harvard University. After a two-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, he started his own architectural firm in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1964. Graves has distinguished himself in the world of architecture both as a designer and as a theorist, and he has received some of the profession's most prestigious awards. He is also professor emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught architecture for forty years.
Introduction
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Michael...
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1990's Fashion Primary Sources
- The Grunge Look: Alice in Chains
- The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson
- Charter of the New Urbanism
- Dockers Advertisement
- The Getty Center
- Monona Terrace
- Guggenheim Bilbao
- "Making the Planet a Better Place"
- "Fleeced"
- "Tibor Kalman"
- "Getting Involved in 'Green' Design: A Primer on the Important Issues and the Options Available to Architects"
- Michael Graves Toaster
- The Celebration Chronicles
- "Office Culture: Banana Republicans"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
