This is the first volume to feature a selection of outstanding objects from the world-famous design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in over forty-five years. Objects of Design offers a brilliant array of the most prized industrial and domestic artifacts by the finest designers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from such early modern masters as Hector Guimard, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit Rietveld, Frank Lloyd Wright, and influential mid-century masters Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Ettore Sottsass, and Joe Colombo, to such contemporary practitioners as Ron Arad, Ingo Maurer, and Hella Jongerius. The selection represents a full range of turn-of-the-century designs of the Vienna Secession, Art Nouveau, and the Arts and Crafts movement; masterpieces of the Bauhaus and the Dutch de Stijl movement; the rise of American design from the middle to late twentieth century; the Italian design revolution of the 1960s; and an international group of contemporary objects in familiar genres that use new materials and manufacturing methods.