Postwar Industrial Design

戦後工業デザイン

Dictionary entry

  1. Space Age Design 1957–early 1970s / Style

    Translates the hopes of the space race into capsule forms, spheres, molded plastic, vivid color and lightweight furniture.

  2. Italian Bel Design 1950s–1970s / Style

    Postwar Italy's golden age of industrial products, where industry and designers added feeling and sculptural presence to functionalism — Castiglioni's lamps and Olivetti's machines exported products as culture.

  3. Ulm School (HfG Ulm) 1953–1968 / Style

    Founded by Max Bill as the Bauhaus's successor, the school redefined design as science, method and system. Its collaboration with Braun made the functionalist face a world standard.

  4. Brussels Style 1958–1960s / Style

    The bright socialist-bloc modernism named for Czechoslovakia's triumph at Expo 58: asymmetric curves, thin splayed legs and atomic patterns spreading thaw-era optimism from housewares to animation.

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