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ブリュッセル様式 / 1958–1960s / Style / Postwar Industrial Design
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.
Asymmetric organic curves / Thin splayed legs / Atom and star patterns / Pastel against black
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Czechoslovak pavilion at Expo 58 / Laterna Magika / consumer culture in the socialist bloc