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Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius

BOOK Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius By Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale, 2005. 192pp. £19.95

For most of us, Nikolaus Pevsner will forever be associated with The Buildings of England - a triumph of persistent scholarship whose appraisals still delight with their precision and pungency. His other popular legacy - Pioneers of Modern Design - now makes a welcome reappearance, with the austere Pelican paperback giving way to this all-singing/ all-dancing Yale version (with an introduction by Richard Weston). It seems not so much the return of an old friend as the arrival of an exotic guest.

Pioneers was first published in 1936, with later editions in 1949 and 1960. So ...

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