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[#150537] Written by: artistharry [14/01/11, 09:40]
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Part 2: Designs for Living
In the crisis-stricken decades of the 1920s and 1930s, with the world at the tipping point between
two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas about the shape of things to come,
from the radical futurism of the Bauhaus to the British love affair with mock-Tudor architecture and
the three-piece suite. In Europe, the 'modern movement' promoted the virtues of the machine and the
machine-made with theories and products like open-plan living, the fitted kitchen and tubular steel
furniture which have become absorbed into the mainstream of the designed world. In the USA,
designers like Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss explored and exploited the dreams and desires of
American consumers to develop a market-based approach to design which has become one of the bedrocks
of the modern consumer society. Featuring Niels Diffrient and Tom Dyckhoff.
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