Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010

ISBN-13: 9780393733044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 208 str.

Judith Gura

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Those guidelines are no longer relevant. As Midcentury Modernism has receded into history, Modernism has been redefined, reenergized, and in the process transformed. Today it embraces a cornucopia of design in an almost limitless range of materials: design studios are laboratories for experimentation; design concepts can be as important as finished objects; and furniture has crossed barriers to become a new art form. Tools and technologies never before possible have provided new approaches to decoration, and may incorporate influences from the past. The design profession has broadened its horizons; interiors and furniture are being created by architects, interior designers, furniture makers, industrial designers, artisans, artists, and even fashion designers Design After Modernism offers an overview of developments in design over the past four decades--some evolutionary, some expected, and some extraordinary. It identifies the diverse influences that have generated new directions in design and illustrates many of the most characteristic, most noteworthy, and most innovative objects in this rich and variegated mix. All are representative of their time, and many of the earlier designs have already gained iconic status. Of the more recent ones, whether or not they will be admired in decades to come is something that only time will tell.

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JUDITH GURA is a professor at the New York School of Interior Design, where she directs the design history program and is coordinator of public programs. Judith Gura is a professor at the New York School of Interior Design, where she directs the design history program and is coordinator of public programs.