This book is the first to explore fully the so-called 'contemporary' style that dominated architecture and design from the late 1940s to the end of the 1950s. It was an era of optimism and confidence, where new ideas in architecture and design flourished alongside the emergent consumer culture.
Emanating mainly from the USA, the 'contemporary' style was fresh and liberating, manifesting itself in the picture window and the open plan, in new forms of furniture from Scandinavia and stylish light fittings from Italy, and most tellingly in the contemporary kitchen with its fitted units and mod-con appliances. This book examines the fresh and liberated design ideas of this buoyant era with an acute eye and open mind.
- ISBN10 0714837571
- ISBN13 9780714837574
- Publish Date 5 March 1998 (first published 3 November 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 25 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English