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.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Capsule forms
- Molded plastic
- Spheres
- Vivid synthetic color
Best used for
- Product and fixture displays where a light, colored object should ask to be touched.
- Events on space or the future needing chairs and lighting as part of the set.
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Choose a rounded geometric sans and match its curves to the shells.
- Composition
- Scatter spheres and egg forms across the floor against one bright wall.
- Material
- Molded plastic, foam, glowing milky panels, saturated single color paint.
- Caution
- Curves and vivid color alone read as cheap plastic, so unless mold seams and paint gloss are controlled the result looks like a toy.
- Further study
- Eero Aarnio / Verner Panton / Olivier Mourgue
Related entries
- Googie (グーギー建築)Shared effects: Exhilaration / Play / Futurity.Compare Space Age Design and Googie
- Streamline Moderne (ストリームライン・モダン)Shared effects: Futurity / Exhilaration.Compare Space Age Design and Streamline Moderne
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