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Designers and Creators of the '80s - '90s : Furniture and Interiors, Hardback Book

Designers and Creators of the '80s - '90s : Furniture and Interiors Hardback

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In line with the works on decorators of the 1940s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, this book plunges us into the world of '80s and '90s.

These have witnessed unprecedented experiments in the world of design and architecture.

Composed of a rich introduction which gives a synoptic vision and 38 monographs that describe its many faces, this book makes and exceptionally creative period intelligible, and reveals through an abundant iconography, often unpublished, its formidable aesthetic richness. A new generation of designers stands out; among them Shiro Kuramata, Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Bob Wilson, Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti.

All regenerate creation by refusing the elitism of their predecessors and by favouring the use of new materials.

Some turn to recovery, such as the Creative Salvage group, and offer inventive and provocative furniture thanks to welding and assembly.

Others, gathered in Italy around Ettore Sottsass and Memphis, combine unexpected colours and patterns to the playful use of plastic laminate.

Sliding until the end of the '90s, the achievements presented in this book mark the desire for a dialogue between artistic references with a new relationship to the industrial aspect, at the dawn of the 21st century and its technological innovations. Text in English and French.

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