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Fashion spectacles. Spectacular fashion. Eyewear styles and shapes from vintage to 2020

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Catalogue Number: 2146
Fashion spectacles. Spectacular fashion. Eyewear styles and shapes from vintage to 2020
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Hewett collection
Author: MURRAY Simon, ALBRECHTSEN Nicky
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2012
Time Period: 21st C
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: China
Publisher/Manufacturer: Thames and Hudson
Description Of Item: Colour illustrated boards, 240 pages, 274 illustrations, 261 in colour. Title on protective clear plastic cover, 275 mm x 245 mm
Historical Significance: A coffee table book, one of several recently published, reflecting new interest in spectacle frame fashion and design from an historical perspective (See Cat No 1095, 1099, 1447). The book has many excellent images as well as reproductions of advertisements and photographs of celebritiies. The text lightly discusses the desgn and manufacture of spectacle frames. The first chapter touches on the 19th C but the book is mostly about 20thC spectacles
How Acquired: Purchased by Kett Museum (Abe books)
Date Acquired: Jan 2013
Condition: Brand new but protective cover scratched
Location: Nathan Library. Hewett collection

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