Fall 2008 Volume 11, Number 3
FEATURES
42 Art Deco Treasure Trove
Bengel Costume Jewelry
A brief flowering of creativity at a German trinket factory in the
1930s left an astonishing collection of jewelry.
By Christianne Weber-Stöber
52 Beyond Words

Artists’ Books
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The radical social and political upheavals of the 20th-century
encouraged a new art form that merged words, images and
form in unprecedented ways.
By Ellen Firsching Brown
Photography by Tasha Tolliver
DEPARTMEnTS

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12 Editor’s Word
15 Mailbox
18 In the Museums
22 Modern Times
news, People, Products
86 City Report
Chicago: Raising Modern Architecture
By Edward Keegan
96 Shelf Life
Architecture, Design and a Suburban Past
By Sandy McLendon
98 Where to Buy Modernism
1 0 2 Advertisers’ Index
104 The Back Page
The Sheer Look: Modernism and
62 Modern Before its Time
Major Appliances
Teco Art Pottery
By Sandy McLendon
As the first skyscrapers rose in Chicago, many of their
architects brought new sleek forms to ceramics.
By Sharon S. Darling
Bonus Content
72 Spaces
Ancient Meets Modern in a California Home
African vernacular architecture, early modernist experiments

and new technologies come together in a sustainable design
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for the 21st century.
By Andrea Truppin
On the cover Architect Steven Ehrlich’s residence,
700 Palms, in Venice, California, completed in 2004.
Photograph by Grey Crawford. See page 72.
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