Festival of Britain Style
フェスティバル様式 / 1951–1950s / Style / Public Design
Postwar Britain's bright modernism spreading from the 1951 festival site: thin legs, molecular patterns and light script faces turning post-austerity optimism into a national visual language.
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At a glance
Visual cues
- Thin legs, light structures
- Molecule and crystal patterns
- Light script lettering
- Festive color
Best used for
- Public buildings and civic events that want postwar optimism and lightness
- Science centres and research bodies using structure and crystal as ornament
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- A light script for headings supported by a thin sans for text
- Composition
- Elements hung from slender lines, placed as if in air rather than on ground
- Material
- Repeat patterns from crystal structures, thin metal legs, bright paint
- Caution
- Gathering only bright colors and thin legs loses the one-off festival occasion and settles into furniture-catalogue nostalgia.
- Further study
- Abram Games's festival emblem / the Festival Pattern Group / Contemporary-style furniture
Related entries
- Mid-Century Modern (ミッドセンチュリー・モダン)Shared effects: Intimacy.Compare Festival of Britain Style and Mid-Century Modern
- Brussels Style (ブリュッセル様式)Shared effects: Futurity / Exhilaration.Compare Festival of Britain Style and Brussels Style
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