Design Since 1945 - World of Art

Peter Dormer

Thames & Hudson

1993

216 páginas

7h 12m

ISBN-11: 28781100641

The essential shape, form and structure of some objects in our daily lives may have been fixed one, ten, or even a hundred generations ago; but the role of designers has become increasingly prominent in a society that in less than half a century has gone from a restless search for the new, to the recycling of old materials. Peter Dormer defines with great clarity the contexts within which designers work, and surveys the wide range of postwar activity, including industrial and product design, graphics, furniture, textiles, kitchen utensils and tableware. 170 illus., 25 in color.