Streamline Moderne

ストリームライン・モダン / 1930s–1940s / Style / Industrial and Spatial Design

Gives even stationary things speed and machine-age optimism through streamlines, horizontals, rounded corners and metal.

Streamlined forms / Horizontal bands / Rounded corners / Chrome

Streamline Moderne — グレイハウンド・バスターミナル 1938（CC BY 4.0）Streamline Moderne — コード810 1936Streamline Moderne — エアストリーム・トレーラー 1956（CC BY 2.0）
グレイハウンド・バスターミナル 1938（CC BY 4.0） ／ コード810 1936 ／ エアストリーム・トレーラー 1956（CC BY 2.0）

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
Type
Observe the type and composition of reference works
Composition
Extract the one principle that steers the eye
Material
Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
Caution
Check not only the look but the medium, technique and social context in which it formed.
Further study
Raymond Loewy / Henry Dreyfuss / Norman Bel Geddes

Related entries

Source: The Met — Design, 1925–50

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