The perfect wall calendar for the year you make it happen. The TASCHEN Wall Calendar Design of the 20th Century 2004 features 12 big and beautiful reproductions, an elegant layout for the days of the month, and all official holidays for your country. As we just recently have come to the end of a century, looking back we can see clearly that the last 100 years have been marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics has entered into everyday life, with often staggering results. Our homes and workplaces have been turned into veritable galleries of style and innovation. This great calendar is a comprehensive journey through the shapes and colors, forms and functions of design history in the 20th century, which builds into a complete picture of contemporary living. From furniture to graphics, it's all here - the work of artists who have shaped and recreated the modern world with a dizzying variety of materials. From the organic to the geometric, from Art Deco, through to Pop and High-Tech, this calendar shows creations of great names - Alvar Aalto, Starck, Charles and Ray Eames, to name only a very few.