Space Age Design
スペースエイジ・デザイン / 1957–early 1970s / Style / Postwar Industrial Design
Translates the hopes of the space race into capsule forms, spheres, molded plastic, vivid color and lightweight furniture.
Capsule forms / Molded plastic / Spheres / Vivid synthetic color
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 space and gaze
- Material
- Verify materials specific to region, period and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of region, politics, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Eero Aarnio / Verner Panton / Olivier Mourgue