Furniture and decor from the 80s.
BONNY Anne.

Furniture and decor from the 80s.

Editions of the gaze
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N° d'inventaire 26192
Format 24 x 30
Détails 224 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2010
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782841052226
The 1980s were marked by transversality; design became a means of communication, placing the designer as the standard-bearer. It revealed a consumer's desire to appropriate signs.

80s Design multiplies its facets, it offers manifestos, it is talkative. The 80s style imposes a practice of collage and humor with Javier Mariscal. English design invents a hybrid culture between the punk movement of the 70s and the post-modern movement of the 80s, with singular creators, Ron Arad, Tom Dixon, Dany Lane... It is signed and engaged with Philippe Starck... Germany replaces the fixed theory of functionalism and the Bauhaus tradition, with Kunstflug and Pentagon groups and design places in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne...

Another design trend of the 1980s is linked to ecological awareness. It engages a reflection on the human condition, his new nomadic condition, the search for his roots and his search for the private: Andrea Branzi, Gaetano Pesce, a new neo-baroque, barbaric era with Garouste and Bonetti and André Dubreuil.

A high-tech aesthetic replaced by a sleek look, a reinvention of furniture syntax with Martin Szekely and François Bauchet... and the rigorous design of architects Ronald Cecil Sportes, Norman Foster, and Jean Nouvel. New materials and technology transfers. New techniques, CAD, and mass production alongside limited editions resulting from artisanal manufacturing processes.

The designer slips into the camp of visual artists, becoming a creator. Italy witnessed a Renaissance with the birth of Memphis: Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves, Nathalie du Pasquier…, design considered as a major project activity. Japan offered a space for reading outside of time and based its creation on Japanese archetypes, a plastic reflection marked by the relationship between the line and the plane: Shiro Kuramata, Toshiuyki Kita and Toyo Ito.

The 1980s saw the reappearance in France of a figure who punctuates the history of the post-industrial revolution: the model maker. This exciting decade featured overlaps, collages, flashbacks, and leaps forward, and offered a kaleidoscope of trends rich in innovations and astonishing creations.
The 1980s were marked by transversality; design became a means of communication, placing the designer as the standard-bearer. It revealed a consumer's desire to appropriate signs.

80s Design multiplies its facets, it offers manifestos, it is talkative. The 80s style imposes a practice of collage and humor with Javier Mariscal. English design invents a hybrid culture between the punk movement of the 70s and the post-modern movement of the 80s, with singular creators, Ron Arad, Tom Dixon, Dany Lane... It is signed and engaged with Philippe Starck... Germany replaces the fixed theory of functionalism and the Bauhaus tradition, with Kunstflug and Pentagon groups and design places in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne...

Another design trend of the 1980s is linked to ecological awareness. It engages a reflection on the human condition, his new nomadic condition, the search for his roots and his search for the private: Andrea Branzi, Gaetano Pesce, a new neo-baroque, barbaric era with Garouste and Bonetti and André Dubreuil.

A high-tech aesthetic replaced by a sleek look, a reinvention of furniture syntax with Martin Szekely and François Bauchet... and the rigorous design of architects Ronald Cecil Sportes, Norman Foster, and Jean Nouvel. New materials and technology transfers. New techniques, CAD, and mass production alongside limited editions resulting from artisanal manufacturing processes.

The designer slips into the camp of visual artists, becoming a creator. Italy witnessed a Renaissance with the birth of Memphis: Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves, Nathalie du Pasquier…, design considered as a major project activity. Japan offered a space for reading outside of time and based its creation on Japanese archetypes, a plastic reflection marked by the relationship between the line and the plane: Shiro Kuramata, Toshiuyki Kita and Toyo Ito.

The 1980s saw the reappearance in France of a figure who punctuates the history of the post-industrial revolution: the model maker. This exciting decade featured overlaps, collages, flashbacks, and leaps forward, and offered a kaleidoscope of trends rich in innovations and astonishing creations.