Forest, Dominique
[HerausgeberIn];
Forest, Dominique
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Aynsley, Jeremy
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
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Medientyp:
Buch;
unbewegtes Bild;
Bildband
Titel:
The art of things
:
product design since 1945
Werktitel:
Art du design. <engl.>
Enthält:
Old Continent and New World: The Emergence of Design
/ Dominique ForestThe United States / Penny Sparke
Scandinavia
/ Ásdís Ólafsdóttir
Germany and Switzerland
/ Jeremy Aynsley
Italy
/ Anty Pansera
Great Britain
/ Penny Sparke
France
/ Dominique Forest
Japan
/ Penny Sparke
Belgium and the Netherlands
/ Mienke Simon Thomas
The Landscape of Design Today
/ Constance Rubini.
Anmerkungen:
"First published in France in 2013 by Citadelle & Mazenod, 8, rue Gaston de Saint-Paul, 75116 Paris"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
The definitive history of a critical, and fascinating, aspect of contemporary life. For most of human history, the form of a useful object was determined by its maker, usually a single artisan working within a long cultural tradition. However, the Industrial Revolution saw the development of a curious new profession, that of the designer, whose job it was to decide the appearance and even the functional aspects of goods - whether typewriters or tableware - that would be manufactured by others or, increasingly, by machines. When the so-called consumer society emerged in full force after World War II, designers took center stage; some, like Charles and Ray Eames, became celebrities and icons of the new lifestyles they were helping to create. Within the burgeoning design community, national tendencies emerged: The Germans and the Swiss, heirs to the Bauhaus, favored a modernist aesthetic in which form followed function, and the Scandinavians pioneered a warmer type of functionalism with their distinctive wooden furniture. The U.S. pursued a double strategy, in which home furnishings influenced by European modernism coexisted with frankly exuberant cars and kitchen appliances.0